Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 11
"Emergency measures" can mean that normal rights and laws are suspended (stopped for a while).
Who acts: Emergency measures · What happens: mean, suspend, stop · To what, where: normal rights · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence» 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 (Emergency measures), 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 measures | punct |
| 2 | Emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | compound |
| 3 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 measures | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 suspended | mark |
| 8 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rights | amod |
| 9 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laws | cc |
| 11 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rights | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 suspended | aux:pass |
| 13 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mean | ccomp |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 suspended | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 while | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stopped | obl |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | Emergency measures | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | suspend | present · passive | normal rights and laws | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | participle | while | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:025-spin-war-and-violence.lesson:11.
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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