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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 (Enemy combatant, prisoner, captured soldier, war), 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:24 # text = "Enemy combatant" means a prisoner denied the rights of a prisoner of war, a captured soldier protected by the rules of war (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): no change 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Enemy enemy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 combatant combatant 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 prisoner prisoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 denied deny VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 prisoner prisoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 captured capture VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 20 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Enemy combatant | a prisoner | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Topic | | 2 | **deny** | participle | a prisoner *not said here* | the rights of a prisoner of war | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality | | 3 | **capture** | participle | | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **protect** | participle | a captured soldier *not said here* | US | | | | by the rules of war | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rule** | | war | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:24`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)