Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 9
"Public diplomacy" can mean government propaganda aimed at foreigners: one-sided messages made to get people to think well of a country.
Who acts: Public diplomacy, government propaganda, one sided messages, people · What happens: mean, aim, make, get, think · To what, where: government propaganda, one sided messages, people
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 (Public diplomacy, government propaganda, one sided messages, 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 | _ | 3 diplomacy | punct |
| 2 | Public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 diplomacy | amod |
| 3 | diplomacy | diplomacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 diplomacy | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 propaganda | compound |
| 8 | propaganda | propaganda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | obj |
| 9 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 propaganda | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 foreigners | case |
| 11 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 aimed | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 messages | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 15 | sided | sided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 messages | amod |
| 16 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 propaganda | acl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 think | mark |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 get | xcomp |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 think | advmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 think | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | 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 | can | Public diplomacy | government propaganda | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent propaganda=Topic | ||||
| 2 | aim | participle | government propaganda not said here | at foreigners | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | make | participle · passive | government propaganda not said here | one sided messages | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | one sided messages not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | people not said here | of a country; well property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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:9.
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. 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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