Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 24
"Strategic misrepresentation" means deliberate lying to win approval, for example hiding a project's real cost.
Who acts: Strategic misrepresentation, project · What happens: mean, win, hide, cost · To what, where: deliberate lying, approval, example
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» 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 (Strategic misrepresentation, project), 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 misrepresentation | punct |
| 2 | Strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 misrepresentation | amod |
| 3 | misrepresentation | misrepresentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 misrepresentation | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | deliberate | deliberate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lying | amod |
| 7 | lying | lying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 win | mark |
| 9 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lying | acl |
| 10 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 win | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hiding | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 hiding | mark |
| 13 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hiding | obl |
| 14 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 win | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 project | det |
| 16 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cost | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 project | case |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cost | amod |
| 19 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hiding | obj |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | Strategic misrepresentation | deliberate lying | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lying=Topic | ||||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | Strategic misrepresentation not said here | approval | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | hide | gerund | Strategic misrepresentation not said here | example | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cost | a project | nom cost «possession 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:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:24.
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): 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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