--- title: Companies hide extra costs, broken products and bad results behind s… — Soft words for hard things: business and adverti… · tree and pragmatics description: Companies hide extra costs, broken products and bad results behind soft words; politicians hide taxes and untruths the same way. Who acts: Companies, politicians. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/0/) [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: business a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/) / 0 # Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 0 Companies hide extra costs, broken products and bad results behind soft words; politicians hide taxes and untruths the same way. **Who acts:** Companies, politicians · **What happens:** hide, break · **To what, where:** extra costs, soft words, taxes This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» 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 (Companies, politicians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:0 # text = Companies hide extra costs, broken products and bad results behind soft words; politicians hide taxes and untruths the same way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 023-fees-bugs-and-spin.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 costs cost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 products product NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 behind behind ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 untruths untruth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | Companies | extra costs and broken products and bad results | | soft words | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cost=Patient behind word=Location | | 2 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hide** | present | politicians | taxes and untruths | | | | the same way *obl:unmarked* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=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:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: business a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/)