Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 12
"Special military operation" is an official name used to avoid the word war.
Who acts: Special military operation · What happens: be, use, avoid · To what, where: official name, word war
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 (Special military operation), 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 | _ | 4 operation | punct |
| 2 | Special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 operation | amod |
| 3 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 operation | amod |
| 4 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 operation | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 8 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 name | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 avoid | mark |
| 12 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 used | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 war | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 war | compound |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 avoid | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Special military operation | a official name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | a official name not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | avoid | to-infinitive | the word war | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent war=Location |
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:12.
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.
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