Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 8
"Servicing the target" is US military jargon for bombing or killing the target.
Who acts: Servicing · What happens: service, be, kill · To what, where: target, US military jargon · 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 (Servicing), 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 | _ | 2 Servicing | punct |
| 2 | Servicing | service | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 jargon | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 target | det |
| 4 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Servicing | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Servicing | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 jargon | cop |
| 7 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 jargon | compound |
| 8 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 jargon | amod |
| 9 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 bombing | mark |
| 11 | bombing | bombing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jargon | acl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 killing | cc |
| 13 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bombing | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 target | det |
| 15 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 jargon | 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 | service in a quote | gerund | the target | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Servicing | US military jargon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | Servicing not said here | the target | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent target=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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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