--- title: "Quantitative easing" means the central bank (the country's own bank… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics description: "Quantitative easing" means the central bank (the country's own bank, in charge of its money) creating new money. Who acts: Quantitative, central bank. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/) / 20 # Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 20 "Quantitative easing" means the central bank (the country's own bank, in charge of its money) creating new money. **Who acts:** Quantitative, central bank · **What happens:** mean, create, charge · **To what, where:** central bank, new money, money This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Quantitative, central bank), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:20 # text = "Quantitative easing" means the central bank (the country's own bank, in charge of its money) creating new money. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 021-work-firing-and-the-economy.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Quantitative Quantitative PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 easing easing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 22 creating create VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Quantitative | the central bank | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Topic | | 2 | **create** | gerund | the central bank *not said here* | new money | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Result | | 3 | **charge** | | | bank's money | | | | | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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](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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:20`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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: work, firi…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/)