Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 7
"New look, same great taste" can mean a smaller package for the same price.
Who acts: New look · What happens: mean · To what, where: smaller package
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 (New look), 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 | _ | 10 mean | punct |
| 2 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | amod |
| 3 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taste | punct |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 taste | amod |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 taste | amod |
| 7 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 taste | punct |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 mean | aux |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 package | det |
| 12 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 package | amod |
| 13 | package | package | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mean | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 price | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 price | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 price | amod |
| 17 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 package | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | New look and same great taste | a smaller package | for the same price | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot package=Theme for price=Attribute |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-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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