Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 3

These words put distance between people and what is really done, which is why it matters to know what they mean.

Who acts: words, Politics · What happens: put, do, be, matter, know, mean · To what, where: distance, people, word · 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 (words, Politics), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 done	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 done	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux:pass
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 people	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 why	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	cop
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 put	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 matters	expl
17	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	advcl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 know	mark
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 matters	csubj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 mean	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mean	nsubj
22	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	present	this words	distance	between people	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent distance=Theme between people=Destination
2	do	present · passive		people		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	matter	present		word		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	know	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	mean	present	Politics			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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:025-spin-war-and-violence.lesson:3.

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): 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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