Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 22
"A full and frank exchange of views" means a serious argument.
Who acts: full exchange · What happens: mean, exchange · To what, where: serious argument, views
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 (full exchange), 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 | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 exchange | det |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 exchange | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 frank | cc |
| 5 | frank | frank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 full | conj |
| 6 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 views | case |
| 8 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 exchange | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 exchange | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 argument | det |
| 12 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 argument | amod |
| 13 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a full exchange of views | a serious argument | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exchange in a quote | views | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:22.
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): R6-punct-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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