--- title: "Extraordinary rendition" means secretly moving a prisoner to anothe… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Extraordinary rendition" means secretly moving a prisoner to another country for interrogation, long hard questioning (US). Who acts: Extraordinary rendition. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence» of the euphemisms cou --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 21 "Extraordinary rendition" means secretly moving a prisoner to another country for interrogation, long hard questioning (US). **Who acts:** Extraordinary rendition · **What happens:** mean, move, question · **To what, where:** prisoner, country 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 (Extraordinary rendition), 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:21 # text = "Extraordinary rendition" means secretly moving a prisoner to another country for interrogation, long hard questioning (US). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Extraordinary extraordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 rendition rendition 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 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prisoner prisoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 interrogation interrogation NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 18 questioning question VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Extraordinary rendition | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **move** *not said to happen* | gerund | Extraordinary rendition *not said here* | a prisoner | | another country | | for interrogation; secretly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme to country=Trajectory | | 3 | **question** *speech: other* | gerund | Extraordinary rendition *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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:21`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/20/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)