--- title: "Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are mad… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps. Who acts: Re-education, people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/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: politics a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/) / 20 # Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 20 "Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps. **Who acts:** Re-education, people · **What happens:** mean, force, make, repeat, accept · **To what, where:** forced political indoctrination, people, ideas 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 (Re-education, people), 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:20 # text = "Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Re-education re-education NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 indoctrination indoctrination NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 repeat repeat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 camps camp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Re-education | forced political indoctrination | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indoctrination=Topic | | 2 | **force** | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present · passive | | people | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the government's ideas | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality | | 5 | **accept** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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: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): 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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/)