Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 2
Politics does the same with money and bad news: a statement that turned out false is suddenly called "inoperative".
Who acts: Politics, statement · What happens: do, turn out, call · To what, where: same, statement · 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 (Politics, statement), 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 | Politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 does | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 money | case |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 news | cc |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 news | amod |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 statement | det |
| 12 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 statement | acl:relcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 turned | compound:prt |
| 16 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 turned | xcomp |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 19 called | advmod |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 does | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 inoperative | punct |
| 21 | inoperative | inoperative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 called | xcomp |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 inoperative | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Politics | the same | with money and bad news | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | turn out | past | a statement | false property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | a statement | inoperative, suddenly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:025-spin-war-and-violence.lesson:2.
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): R8-pos-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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