Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 8
"A good day to bury bad news" means a day when bad news will go unnoticed because something bigger is happening (UK).
Who acts: good day, bad news, something · What happens: bury, mean, go, happen · To what, where: bad news, UK · 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 (good day, bad news, something), 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 | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bury | mark |
| 6 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 day | acl |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 news | amod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bury | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 go | advmod |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 news | amod |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 day | acl:relcl |
| 18 | unnoticed | unnoticed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 go | xcomp |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 happening | mark |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 happening | nsubj |
| 21 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 something | amod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 happening | aux |
| 23 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 go | advcl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 UK | punct |
| 25 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 happening | obj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 UK | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury in a quote | to-infinitive | a good day not said here | bad news | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a good day | day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | future | bad news | unnoticed property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | happen | present · progressive | something | UK | tree rules |
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:8.
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. 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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