Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 3

In politics, someone caught saying something false may say they "misspoke", and a new tax can be called "revenue enhancement".

Who acts: someone, Programmers · What happens: catch, say, misspeak, call · To what, where: something, politics, new tax · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (someone, Programmers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 politics	case
2	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 say	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 politics	punct
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 say	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 someone	acl
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 caught	xcomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 saying	obj
8	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 misspoke	nsubj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 misspoke	punct
13	misspoke	misspeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 misspoke	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 called	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tax	det
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tax	amod
19	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	nsubj:pass
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 say	conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 enhancement	punct
24	revenue	revenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 enhancement	compound
25	enhancement	enhancement	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 enhancement	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	catch	participle				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund		something		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	say speech: assert	may	someone		politics	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	misspeak in a quote	past	Programmers = programmer			tree rules
5	call	can · passive		a new tax		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:3.

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.

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