Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 1

Officials say a claim was "not entirely accurate" instead of "false"; businesses "massage the numbers" instead of faking them.

Who acts: Officials, claim, businesses · What happens: say, not be, massage, fake · To what, where: numbers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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 (Officials, claim, businesses), 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	Officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 claim	det
4	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accurate	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 accurate	cop
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 accurate	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 accurate	advmod
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	9 accurate	advmod
9	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 accurate	punct
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	14 false	advmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 false	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 false	punct
14	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 accurate	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 false	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 businesses	punct
17	businesses	business	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 massage	nsubj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 massage	punct
19	massage	massage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 numbers	det
21	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 massage	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 massage	punct
23	instead	instead	ADV	_	25 faking	mark
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 faking	mark
25	faking	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 massage	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 faking	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Officials			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is in a quote	past	a claim		of false; accurate, entirely property	tree rules
3	massage in a quote	present	businesses	the numbers		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Experiencer
4	fake	gerund	businesses not said here	numbers = number		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:1.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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