Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 1

Sometimes the soft word is fair and polite; often it is spin that hides who did what, and to whom.

Who acts: soft word, it, spin · What happens: be, hide, do · To what, where: spin

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (soft word, it, spin), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 fair	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fair	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	cop
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 polite	cc
8	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fair	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 spin	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	13 spin	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spin	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spin	cop
13	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fair	parataxis
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 hides	nsubj
15	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spin	acl:relcl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hides	ccomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 did	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 whom	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 whom	cc
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 did	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the soft word		fair, sometimes property	tree rules
2	be		the soft word not said here			tree rules
3	is a	present	it	spin	often property	tree rules
4	hide	present	spin			tree rules
5	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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:024-government-spin.lesson:1.

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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