--- title: "Vocational training centre" (vocational means about learning a job)… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Vocational training centre" (vocational means about learning a job) has been used as a name for an internment camp, a camp where people are locked up without a fair trial. Who acts: vocational means. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin» of the euphemis --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/19/) [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/) / 19 # Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 19 "Vocational training centre" (vocational means about learning a job) has been used as a name for an internment camp, a camp where people are locked up without a fair trial. **Who acts:** vocational means · **What happens:** learn, use, lock up · **To what, where:** job, Vocational training centre, people 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 (vocational means), 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:19 # text = "Vocational training centre" (vocational means about learning a job) has been used as a name for an internment camp, a camp where people are locked up without a fair trial. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Vocational vocational ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 vocational vocational ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 4 appos _ _ 9 about about SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 internment internment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 32 without without ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | gerund | vocational means *not said here* | a job | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic | | 2 | **use** | present · perfect · passive | | Vocational training centre | | | | as a name for a internment camp | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as name=Attribute | | 3 | **lock up** | present · passive | | people | | | | without a fair trial | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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:024-government-spin.lesson:19`. **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, 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: politics a…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/)