Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 4
When you hear them, translate them back: kill, prison, riot, propaganda, false.
Who acts: you · What happens: hear, translate back · To what, where: Politics
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 (you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 hear | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 translate | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 translate | punct |
| 6 | translate | translate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 translate | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 translate | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 kill | punct |
| 10 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 them | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prison | punct |
| 12 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 riot | punct |
| 14 | riot | riot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 propaganda | punct |
| 16 | propaganda | propaganda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 false | punct |
| 18 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kill | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 translate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | you | Politics | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | translate back | imperative | you not said here | Politics | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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:4.
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 ×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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