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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 (word, soldier), 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:1 # text = A word like "neutralize" or "eliminate" sounds like tidying up, but in a soldier's or a spy's report it means to kill. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 neutralize neutralize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 eliminate eliminate VERB VB _ 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 tidying tidy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 spy spy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **neutralize** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **eliminate** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sound** | present | a word | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **tidy up** | gerund | a word *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | word | | | a soldier's spy report | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | word *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **report** | | a soldier | | | | | | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=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:025-spin-war-and-violence.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)