Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 20
"Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps.
Who acts: Re-education, people · What happens: mean, force, make, repeat, accept · To what, where: forced political indoctrination, people, ideas
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 (Re-education, people), 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 | _ | 2 Re-education | punct |
| 2 | Re-education | re-education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Re-education | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 indoctrination | amod |
| 6 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 indoctrination | amod |
| 7 | indoctrination | indoctrination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 indoctrination | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 repeat | mark |
| 13 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 accept | cc |
| 15 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 repeat | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 government | det |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ideas | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 government | case |
| 19 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 repeat | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 often | punct |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 camps | case |
| 23 | camps | camp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 often | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Re-education | forced political indoctrination | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indoctrination=Topic | ||||
| 2 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | people | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | repeat | to-infinitive | people not said here | the government's ideas | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | accept | infinitive | people not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:20.
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): 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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