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title: When you hear them, translate them back: kill, prison, riot, propaga… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you hear them, translate them back: kill, prison, riot, propaganda, false. Who acts: you. 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 pra
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# Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 4

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When you hear them, translate them back: kill, prison, riot, propaganda, false.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hear, translate back · **To what, where:** Politics

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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 (you), 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:4
# text = When you hear them, translate them back: kill, prison, riot, propaganda, false.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	translate	translate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	riot	riot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hear** | present | you | Politics |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **translate back** | imperative | you *not said here* | Politics |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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**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:4`.

**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): 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/).

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