--- title: Farmers, hunters and officials often use dry words like "culled", "p… — Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and… · tree and pragmatics description: Farmers, hunters and officials often use dry words like "culled", "processed" or "pest control" so killing sounds like ordinary work. Who acts: Farmers, killing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmers, killing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:018-pets-and-money.lesson:1 # text = Farmers, hunters and officials often use dry words like "culled", "processed" or "pest control" so killing sounds like ordinary work. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 018-pets-and-money.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 culled cull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 nmod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 processed process VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 24 killing killing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **use** | present | Farmers and hunters and officials | dry words | | | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **cull** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **process** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sound** | present | killing | | | | | like ordinary work | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:018-pets-and-money.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: animals an…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: animals an…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/)