Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 5
"Mistakes were made" means we did wrong, but we will not say who.
Who acts: we · What happens: make, mean, do, not say · To what, where: Mistakes · 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 (we), 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 | 6 means | csubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 did | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 say | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past · passive | Mistakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | we | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | future | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent who=Topic |
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:5.
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 ×2. 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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