Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 23
"Terminological inexactitude" is a joking name for a lie (UK).
Who acts: Terminological inexactitude · What happens: joke, be · To what, where: joking name
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Terminological inexactitude), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 inexactitude | punct |
| 2 | Terminological | terminological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 inexactitude | amod |
| 3 | inexactitude | inexactitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 inexactitude | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 7 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 lie | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lie | det |
| 11 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 UK | punct |
| 13 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lie | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 UK | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Terminological inexactitude | a joking name | for a lie | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:23.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/23/