--- title: Hospitals, armies and governments use cold official words, such as "… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics description: Hospitals, armies and governments use cold official words, such as "negative patient outcome" or "collateral damage", so that a death sounds like a number in a report instead of a person. Who acts: Hospitals, death. 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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 (Hospitals, death), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:002-death-official-and-slang.lesson:1 # text = Hospitals, armies and governments use cold official words, such as "negative patient outcome" or "collateral damage", so that a death sounds like a number in a report instead of a person. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 002-death-official-and-slang.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 negative negative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 patient patient NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 outcome outcome NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 collateral collateral NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 35 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 38 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Hospitals and armies and governments | cold official words | | | | such negative patient outcome or collateral damage | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **sound** | present | a death | | | | | like a number in a report; instead a person | 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:002-death-official-and-slang.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): R5-strong ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/)