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title: Some words hide terrible things: governments have called prison camp… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some words hide terrible things: governments have called prison camps "vocational training centres". Who acts: words, governments. 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 pr
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# Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 3

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Some words hide terrible things: governments have called prison camps "vocational training centres".

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**Who acts:** words, governments · **What happens:** hide, call · **To what, where:** terrible things, prison camps · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (words, governments), 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:3
# text = Some words hide terrible things: governments have called prison camps "vocational training centres".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	vocational	vocational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	xcomp	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | some words | terrible things |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | present · perfect | governments | prison camps |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent camp=Recipient |

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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.

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**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: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): 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/).

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