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title: "Friendly fire" means an attack on one's own side by mistake. — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Friendly fire" means an attack on one's own side by mistake. Who acts: Friendly fire. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 13

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"Friendly fire" means an attack on one's own side by mistake.

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**Who acts:** Friendly fire · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** attack, own side

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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 (Friendly fire), 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:13
# text = "Friendly fire" means an attack on one's own side by mistake.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Friendly fire | a attack |  | one's own side |  | by mistake | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Topic |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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.

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