Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 23
"Constructive talks" often means talks that reached no agreement.
Who acts: Constructive talks, talks · What happens: mean, reach · To what, where: talks, agreement
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 (Constructive talks, talks), 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 | _ | 3 talks | punct |
| 2 | Constructive | constructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 talks | amod |
| 3 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 talks | punct |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 talks | acl:relcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 agreement | det |
| 11 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | Constructive talks | talks | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Topic | |||
| 2 | reach | past | talks | no agreement | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme |
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:23.
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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