--- title: "Emergency measures" can mean that normal rights and laws are suspen… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Emergency measures" can mean that normal rights and laws are suspended (stopped for a while). Who acts: Emergency measures. 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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 (Emergency measures), 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:11 # text = "Emergency measures" can mean that normal rights and laws are suspended (stopped for a while). # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 measures measure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 suspended suspend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 20 . . 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** | can | Emergency measures | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **suspend** | present · passive | | normal rights and laws | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | participle | | | | | while | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:11`. **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…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/10/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)