Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 21
"The deterrent" is the British official way to say nuclear weapons, the most destructive bombs ever made.
Who acts: deterrent, nuclear weapons · What happens: be, say, make · To what, where: British official way, destructive bombs · 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 (deterrent, nuclear weapons), 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 | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deterrent | det |
| 3 | deterrent | deterrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deterrent | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 8 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weapons | amod |
| 13 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bombs | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 destructive | advmod |
| 17 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bombs | amod |
| 18 | bombs | bomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 made | advmod |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 weapons | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | the deterrent | the British official way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | nuclear weapons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | participle · passive | nuclear weapons not said here | the destructive bombs | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:21.
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): R6-punct-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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