--- title: "Nation-building" means occupying a country (moving in with soldiers… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Nation-building" means occupying a country (moving in with soldiers and taking control) and remaking its government. Who acts: Nation building. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nation building), 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:8 # text = "Nation-building" means occupying a country (moving in with soldiers and taking control) and remaking its government. # 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 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 occupying occupy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 12 in in ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 17 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 remaking remake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **mean** | present | Nation building | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **occupy** | gerund | | a country | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus country=Experiencer | | 3 | **move in** | gerund | | | | | | with soldiers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | | control | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme | | 5 | **remake** | gerund | | building's government | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset government=Product | 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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/7/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/)