Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 20
"The final solution" was the name used by the Nazis (the National Socialists, who ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945) for their plan to murder all the Jews of Europe.
Who acts: final solution, National Socialists, Socialists · What happens: be, use, rule, murder, plan · To what, where: name, Germany, 1933, Jews
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 (final solution, National Socialists, Socialists), 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 solution | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 solution | det |
| 3 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 solution | amod |
| 4 | solution | solution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 solution | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 name | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Nazis | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Nazis | det |
| 12 | Nazis | Nazi | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 used | obl:agent |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Socialists | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Socialists | det |
| 15 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Socialists | amod |
| 16 | Socialists | Socialist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Nazis | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ruled | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 ruled | nsubj |
| 19 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Socialists | acl:relcl |
| 20 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ruled | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 1933 | case |
| 22 | 1933 | 1933 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 ruled | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 1945 | case |
| 24 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 1933 | nmod |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 1933 | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 plan | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 plan | nmod:poss |
| 28 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 murder | mark |
| 30 | murder | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 plan | acl |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 Jews | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Jews | det |
| 33 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 murder | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Europe | case |
| 35 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Jews | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | past | the final solution | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | the name not said here | for Socialists's plan | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rule | past | the National Socialists | Germany | 1933 to 1945 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent germany=Result | |||
| 4 | murder | to-infinitive | all Jews of Europe | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=Patient | |||||
| 5 | plan | Socialists = socialist | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:20.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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