--- title: "Public diplomacy" can mean government propaganda aimed at foreigner… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Public diplomacy" can mean government propaganda aimed at foreigners: one-sided messages made to get people to think well of a country. Who acts: Public diplomacy, government propaganda, one sided messages, people. 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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 (Public diplomacy, government propaganda, one sided messages, 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:9 # text = "Public diplomacy" can mean government propaganda aimed at foreigners: one-sided messages made to get people to think well of a country. # 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 Public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 diplomacy diplomacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 propaganda propaganda NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 aimed aim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 foreigners foreigner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 sided sided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | can | Public diplomacy | government propaganda | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent propaganda=Topic | | 2 | **aim** | participle | | government propaganda *not said here* | | | | at foreigners | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **make** | participle · passive | government propaganda *not said here* | one sided messages | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | one sided messages *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | of a country; well *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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:9`. **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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/8/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/)