--- title: "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts (UK). — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts (UK). Who acts: Efficiency savings. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/12/) [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: politics a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/) / 12 # Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 12 "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts (UK). **Who acts:** Efficiency savings · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** budget cuts This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Efficiency savings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:024-government-spin.lesson:12 # text = "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts (UK). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 024-government-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): R5-strong ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Efficiency efficiency NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 budget budget NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 . . 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 | Efficiency savings | budget cuts | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Topic | 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:024-government-spin.lesson:12`. **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. **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: politics a…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/11/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/)