--- title: "Soft money" means political donations (gifts of money) that dodge s… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "Soft money" means political donations (gifts of money) that dodge spending limits, getting round the rules on how much may be spent (US). Who acts: Soft money, political donations. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence» --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 6 "Soft money" means political donations (gifts of money) that dodge spending limits, getting round the rules on how much may be spent (US). **Who acts:** Soft money, political donations · **What happens:** mean, dodge, get, spend, gift · **To what, where:** political donations, spending limits, rules, much, money 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 (Soft money, political donations), 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:6 # text = "Soft money" means political donations (gifts of money) that dodge spending limits, getting round the rules on how much may be spent (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 `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 money money 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 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 donations donation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 dodge dodge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 15 spending spending NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 limits limit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 19 round round ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 on on SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 24 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 acl _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 29 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 dep _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Soft money | political donations | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donation=Topic | | 2 | **dodge** | present | political donations | spending limits | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent limit=Location | | 3 | **get** | gerund | political donations *not said here* | | | the rules | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round rule=Destination | | 4 | **spend** | may · passive | | much | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 5 | **gift** | | | money | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:6`. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/5/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)