Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 4
When you hear calm, official words about fighting, ask: who got hurt, and what really happened?
Who acts: you · What happens: hear, fight, ask, get, hurt, happen · To what, where: calm official words · 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 (you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 hear | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | advcl |
| 4 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 fighting | case |
| 9 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 words | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fighting | punct |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | ccomp |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ask | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 happened | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 happened | advmod |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | you | calm official words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | hurt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:4.
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 ×2. 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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