Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 13
"Entitlement reform" means cutting pensions and welfare (US).
Who acts: Entitlement reform · What happens: mean, cut · To what, where: pensions
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 (Entitlement reform), 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 reform | punct |
| 2 | Entitlement | entitlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reform | compound |
| 3 | reform | reform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reform | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | pensions | pension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cutting | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 welfare | cc |
| 9 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pensions | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 US | punct |
| 11 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | dep |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 US | punct |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | Entitlement reform | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cut not said to happen | gerund | Entitlement reform not said here | pensions and welfare | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pension=Product |
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:13.
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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