Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 3
Some words hide terrible things: governments have called prison camps "vocational training centres".
Who acts: words, governments · What happens: hide, call · To what, where: terrible things, prison camps · 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 (words, governments), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 7 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 camps | compound |
| 11 | camps | camp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 centres | punct |
| 13 | vocational | vocational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 centres | amod |
| 14 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 centres | compound |
| 15 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | xcomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 centres | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | 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 | hide | present | some words | terrible things | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | present · perfect | governments | prison camps | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent camp=Recipient |
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:3.
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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