--- title: Economists do the same with bad news: "negative growth" sounds like… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Economists do the same with bad news: "negative growth" sounds like growing, but it means the economy got smaller. Who acts: negative growth, it, economy. 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 de --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 3 Economists do the same with bad news: "negative growth" sounds like growing, but it means the economy got smaller. **Who acts:** negative growth, it, economy · **What happens:** sound, grow, mean, get · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (negative growth, it, economy), 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:3 # text = Economists do the same with bad news: "negative growth" sounds like growing, but it means the economy got smaller. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Economists economist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 negative negative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 like like SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 economy economy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | negative growth | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | negative growth *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | past | the economy | | | | | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/)