Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 0
War means killing and destruction, and the people who start or run wars often do not want to say that plainly.
Who acts: War, people · What happens: mean, start, run, not want, say · To what, where: killing, wars, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (War, people), 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 | War | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 destruction | cc |
| 5 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killing | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 want | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 want | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 start | nsubj |
| 11 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 run | cc |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 start | conj |
| 14 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 run | obj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 want | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 want | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 want | advmod |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 means | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 say | mark |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 want | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 say | obj |
| 22 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 20 say | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | War | killing and destruction | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | start | present | the people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run | present | the people not said here | wars | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not want | present · do-support | the people | often property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the people not said here | that | plainly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=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:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/0/