Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 18
"Internally displaced person" means someone forced from home who is still inside their own country.
Who acts: displaced person, home · What happens: displace, mean, force, be · To what, where: someone, home, own country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (displaced person, home), 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 | _ | 4 person | punct |
| 2 | Internally | internally | ADV | _ | 3 displaced | advmod |
| 3 | displaced | displace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 person | amod |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 person | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 someone | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forced | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 country | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 country | cop |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 country | advmod |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 country | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 home | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displace in a quote | participle | internally property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | displaced person | someone | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic | ||||
| 3 | force | participle | home | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | home | spending's own country | still | tree rules |
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:18.
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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