Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 6
"Service charge" means an extra fee added to the bill (UK).
Who acts: Service charge · What happens: mean, add · To what, where: extra fee
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 (Service charge), 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 charge | punct |
| 2 | Service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charge | compound |
| 3 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 charge | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fee | det |
| 7 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fee | amod |
| 8 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fee | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bill | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bill | det |
| 12 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 UK | punct |
| 14 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bill | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 UK | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Service charge | a extra fee | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Topic | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | participle | a extra fee not said here | to the bill | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to bill=Co-Patient |
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:6.
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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