Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 24
"Economical with the truth" means lying or leaving out important facts (UK).
What happens: mean, lie, leave out · To what, where: important facts
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: 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 | _ | 2 Economical | punct |
| 2 | Economical | economical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 truth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Economical | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Economical | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 leaving | cc |
| 10 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lying | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 leaving | compound:prt |
| 12 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 facts | amod |
| 13 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 leaving | obj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 UK | punct |
| 15 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 facts | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 UK | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | lie not said to happen | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | leave out | gerund | important facts | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
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:24.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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.
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