Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 8
"Value" on a shop's own brand can mean cheap and of low quality.
Who acts: Value, shop · What happens: mean, brand · To what, where: cheap
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 (Value, shop), 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 Value | punct |
| 2 | Value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Value | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 brand | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shop | det |
| 6 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 shop | case |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brand | amod |
| 9 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Value | nmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | aux |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mean | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 quality | cc |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 quality | case |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 quality | amod |
| 16 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cheap | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | Value on a shop's own brand | cheap and low quality | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheap=Topic | ||||
| 2 | brand | a shop | nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:8.
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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