--- title: "Earmarks" means money set aside for a politician's pet local projec… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Earmarks" means money set aside for a politician's pet local projects, favourite schemes in his own area (US). Who acts: Earmarks, politician. 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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 (Earmarks, politician), 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:5 # text = "Earmarks" means money set aside for a politician's pet local projects, favourite schemes in his own area (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): R5-strong ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Earmarks earmark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 aside aside ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 politician politician NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:poss 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 projects project NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 schemes scheme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 . . 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 | **mean** | present | Earmarks | money | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic | | 2 | **set** | participle | | money *not said here* | | | | for a politician's pet local projects in statement's own area and favourite schemes; aside *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for project=Beneficiary | | 3 | **project** | | a politician | | | statement's own area | | | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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:5`. **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. **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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/4/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)