Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 19
"Vocational training centre" (vocational means about learning a job) has been used as a name for an internment camp, a camp where people are locked up without a fair trial.
Who acts: vocational means · What happens: learn, use, lock up · To what, where: job, Vocational training centre, people
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 (vocational means), 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 centre | punct |
| 2 | Vocational | vocational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 centre | amod |
| 3 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 centre | compound |
| 4 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 centre | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 7 | vocational | vocational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | amod |
| 8 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 centre | appos |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 learning | mark |
| 10 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 job | det |
| 12 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 learning | obj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 used | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 used | aux:pass |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 used | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 camp | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 camp | det |
| 22 | internment | internment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 camp | compound |
| 23 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 name | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 camp | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 camp | det |
| 26 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 camp | appos |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 locked | advmod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 locked | aux:pass |
| 30 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 camp | acl:relcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 locked | compound:prt |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 35 trial | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 trial | det |
| 34 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 trial | amod |
| 35 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 locked | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | vocational means not said here | a job | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | present · perfect · passive | Vocational training centre | as a name for a internment camp | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as name=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | lock up | present · passive | people | without a fair trial | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:19.
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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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