Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 13
"Police action" is an old US official name for a war, such as the Korean War.
Who acts: Police action · What happens: be · To what, where: old US official name
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 (Police action), 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 action | punct |
| 2 | Police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 action | compound |
| 3 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 action | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 8 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | compound |
| 9 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 war | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 war | det |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 War | punct |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 War | case |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 such | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 War | det |
| 18 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 War | amod |
| 19 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 war | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 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 | Police action | a old US official name | for a war such the Korean War | 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:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:13.
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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