Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 6

"Soft money" means political donations (gifts of money) that dodge spending limits, getting round the rules on how much may be spent (US).

Who acts: Soft money, political donations · What happens: mean, dodge, get, spend, gift · To what, where: political donations, spending limits, rules, much, money

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 (Soft money, political donations), 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 money	punct
2	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 money	amod
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 money	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 donations	amod
7	donations	donation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	obj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 gifts	punct
9	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 donations	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 money	case
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gifts	nmod
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 gifts	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 dodge	nsubj
14	dodge	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 donations	acl:relcl
15	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 limits	compound
16	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dodge	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 getting	punct
18	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dodge	advcl
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 rules	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rules	det
21	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 getting	obl
22	on	on	SCONJ	_	27 spent	mark
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spent	nsubj:pass
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 spent	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 spent	aux:pass
27	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 rules	acl
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 US	punct
29	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 spent	dep
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 US	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	Soft money	political donations		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donation=Topic
2	dodge	present	political donations	spending limits		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent limit=Location
3	get	gerund	political donations not said here		the rules	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round rule=Destination
4	spend	may · passive		much		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	gift			money		nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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:6.

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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