Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 2

"Mistakes were made" is the classic example: it admits something went wrong but never says who made the mistakes.

Who acts: example, something · What happens: make, be, admit, go, not say · To what, where: Mistakes, classic example · 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 (example, something), 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 made	punct
2	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 example	csubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 example	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 example	det
8	classic	classic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 example	amod
9	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 admits	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 admits	nsubj
12	admits	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 example	parataxis
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 admits	ccomp
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	xcomp
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 says	advmod
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 admits	conj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 says	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mistakes	det
22	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 example	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past · passive		Mistakes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is a	present		the classic example		tree rules
3	admit speech: other	present	example			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past	something		wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not say speech: assert	present	example not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make	past		the mistakes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=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:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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