--- title: Politics does the same with money and bad news: a statement that tur… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: Politics does the same with money and bad news: a statement that turned out false is suddenly called "inoperative". Who acts: Politics, statement. 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 --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 2 Politics does the same with money and bad news: a statement that turned out false is suddenly called "inoperative". **Who acts:** Politics, statement · **What happens:** do, turn out, call · **To what, where:** same, statement · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Politics, statement), 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:2 # text = Politics does the same with money and bad news: a statement that turned out false is suddenly called "inoperative". # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 nsubj _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 statement statement NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 inoperative inoperative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Politics | the same | | | | with money and bad news | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | | 2 | **turn out** | past | a statement | | | | | false *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | a statement | | | | inoperative, suddenly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:2`. **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): R8-pos-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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)