--- title: "Liquidate" means kill, especially many people; dictators (rulers wi… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Liquidate" means kill, especially many people; dictators (rulers with total power who cannot be voted out) have used it. Who acts: dictators. 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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 (dictators), 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:17 # text = "Liquidate" means kill, especially many people; dictators (rulers with total power who cannot be voted out) have used it. # 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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Liquidate liquidate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 kill kill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 especially especially ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 11 dictators dictator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 voted vote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **liquidate** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | kill and many people | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kill=Topic | | 3 | **not** **vote out** | can · passive | | total power | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | | 4 | **use** | present · perfect | dictators | power | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:17`. **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 ×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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)