Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 21
"Extraordinary rendition" means secretly moving a prisoner to another country for interrogation, long hard questioning (US).
Who acts: Extraordinary rendition · What happens: mean, move, question · To what, where: prisoner, country
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 (Extraordinary rendition), 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 rendition | punct |
| 2 | Extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rendition | amod |
| 3 | rendition | rendition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rendition | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 7 moving | advmod |
| 7 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prisoner | det |
| 9 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moving | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moving | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 interrogation | case |
| 14 | interrogation | interrogation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moving | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 questioning | punct |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 questioning | advmod |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 questioning | amod |
| 18 | questioning | question | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 moving | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 US | punct |
| 20 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 questioning | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 US | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Extraordinary rendition | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | move not said to happen | gerund | Extraordinary rendition not said here | a prisoner | another country | for interrogation; secretly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme to country=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | question speech: other | gerund | Extraordinary rendition not said here | long property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: 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:025-spin-war-and-violence.lesson:21.
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, R7-rel-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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