Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 4
Ask what the plain word would be: a fee, a bug, a loss, a tax, a lie.
Who acts: you, plain word · What happens: ask, be · 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 (you, plain word), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 what | cop |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 fee | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fee | det |
| 10 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bug | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bug | det |
| 13 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fee | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 loss | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 loss | det |
| 16 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fee | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tax | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tax | det |
| 19 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fee | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lie | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lie | det |
| 22 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fee | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | would | the plain word | 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:4.
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): 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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