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title: Banks and companies use dry, technical words so that debt and job lo… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Banks and companies use dry, technical words so that debt and job losses sound like ordinary paperwork. Who acts: Banks, debt. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 0

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Banks and companies use dry, technical words so that debt and job losses sound like ordinary paperwork.

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**Who acts:** Banks, debt · **What happens:** use, sound · **To what, where:** dry technical words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» 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 (Banks, debt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:0
# text = Banks and companies use dry, technical words so that debt and job losses sound like ordinary paperwork.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 020-debt-and-jobs.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
1	Banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	technical	technical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	losses	loss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
15	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	paperwork	paperwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Banks and companies | dry technical words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **sound** | present | debt and job and losses |  |  |  |  | like ordinary paperwork | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:0`.

**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. **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/).

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