Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 2
These words are mostly spin and hiding, not kindness: they make terrible things sound tidy, careful or even normal.
Who acts: words, terrible things · What happens: be, make, sound · To what, where: spin, terrible things
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 (words, terrible things), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spin | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spin | cop |
| 4 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 5 spin | advmod |
| 5 | spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hiding | cc |
| 7 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spin | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kindness | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 kindness | advmod |
| 10 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spin | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spin | parataxis |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | xcomp |
| 17 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sound | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 careful | punct |
| 19 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tidy | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 normal | cc |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 normal | advmod |
| 22 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tidy | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this words | spin and hiding and kindness | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | words = word | terrible things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | terrible things not said here | tidy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:2.
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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