Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 16
"Strategic withdrawal" is the official way to say an army retreated.
Who acts: Strategic withdrawal, army · What happens: be, say, retreat · To what, where: official way · 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 (Strategic withdrawal, army), 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 withdrawal | punct |
| 2 | Strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 withdrawal | amod |
| 3 | withdrawal | withdrawal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 withdrawal | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 army | det |
| 12 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 retreated | nsubj |
| 13 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | 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 | Strategic withdrawal | the official way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | retreat | past | a army | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:16.
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 ×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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