Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 6
"Surgical strike" means a bombing that is claimed to hit only its target, though it often hits more.
Who acts: Surgical strike, strike · What happens: mean, claim, hit, target · To what, where: bombing, target, more
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 (Surgical strike, strike), 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 strike | punct |
| 2 | Surgical | surgical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strike | amod |
| 3 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strike | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bombing | det |
| 7 | bombing | bombing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 claimed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 claimed | aux:pass |
| 10 | claimed | claim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bombing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hit | mark |
| 12 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 claimed | xcomp |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 target | advmod |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 target | nmod:poss |
| 15 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hits | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 hits | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hits | nsubj |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 hits | advmod |
| 20 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hit | advcl |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 hits | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Surgical strike | a bombing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bombing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | present · passive | a bombing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hit | to-infinitive | strike's target | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme target=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | hit | present | strike | more | often property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | target | strike | nom target «communication 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:6.
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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