Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 1

So armies and governments invent cool, technical-sounding words that hide the blood: an attack becomes "kinetic action", a retreat becomes a "tactical redeployment".

Who acts: armies, cool sounding words, attack, retreat · What happens: invent, sound, hide, become · To what, where: cool sounding words, blood, kinetic action, tactical redeployment

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 (armies, cool sounding words, attack, retreat), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 invent	advmod
2	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 invent	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 governments	cc
4	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 armies	conj
5	invent	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cool	punct
8	technical	technical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cool	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 technical	punct
10	sounding	sound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 invent	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hide	nsubj
13	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 words	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blood	det
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hide	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 becomes	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 attack	det
18	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 becomes	nsubj
19	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 invent	parataxis
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 action	punct
21	kinetic	kinetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 action	amod
22	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 becomes	xcomp
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 action	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 becomes	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 retreat	det
26	retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 becomes	nsubj
27	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 becomes	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 redeployment	det
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 redeployment	punct
30	tactical	tactical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 redeployment	amod
31	redeployment	redeployment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 becomes	xcomp
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 redeployment	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 invent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	invent	present	armies and governments	cool sounding words	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Result
2	sound	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	hide	present	cool sounding words	the blood	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
4	become	present	a attack	kinetic action	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	become	present	a retreat	a tactical redeployment	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:1.

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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