--- title: War and violence are the hardest things of all to talk about, so gov… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: War and violence are the hardest things of all to talk about, so governments, armies and criminals give them cold, technical names. Who acts: War, governments. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence» of the euphemisms cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/0/) [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/25-spin-war-and-violence/) / 0 # Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 0 War and violence are the hardest things of all to talk about, so governments, armies and criminals give them cold, technical names. **Who acts:** War, governments · **What happens:** be, talk about, give · **To what, where:** hardest things, cold technical names, War This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence» 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 (War, governments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:025-spin-war-and-violence.lesson:0 # text = War and violence are the hardest things of all to talk about, so governments, armies and criminals give them cold, technical names. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 025-spin-war-and-violence.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 War war NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 violence violence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 parataxis _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 15 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 criminals criminal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 technical technical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | War and violence | the hardest things | | | | of all | tree rules | | 2 | **talk about** | to-infinitive | governments and armies and criminals *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | present | governments and armies and criminals | cold technical names | War | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient name=Theme | 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:025-spin-war-and-violence.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)