Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 7
"Soft target" means unprotected people or places, often ordinary civilians (people who are not soldiers).
Who acts: Soft target, people · What happens: mean, not be · To what, where: unprotected people, soldiers
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 (Soft target, people), 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 target | punct |
| 2 | Soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 target | amod |
| 3 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 target | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | unprotected | unprotect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 places | cc |
| 9 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 people | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 civilians | punct |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 civilians | advmod |
| 12 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 civilians | amod |
| 13 | civilians | civilian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 people | conj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 people | punct |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 civilians | appos |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 soldiers | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 soldiers | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 soldiers | advmod |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 people | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 people | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Soft target | unprotected people or places and ordinary civilians | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | people | soldiers | tree rules |
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:7.
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, 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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