--- title: "A good day to bury bad news" means a day when bad news will go unno… — Soft words for hard things: politics and governm… · tree and pragmatics description: "A good day to bury bad news" means a day when bad news will go unnoticed because something bigger is happening (UK). Who acts: good day, bad news, something. 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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 (good day, bad news, something), 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:8 # text = "A good day to bury bad news" means a day when bad news will go unnoticed because something bigger is happening (UK). # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 14 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 unnoticed unnoticed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 nsubj _ _ 21 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 happening happen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a good day *not said here* | bad news | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | a good day | | | | day | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | future | bad news | | | | | unnoticed *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **happen** | present · progressive | something | UK | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/7/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: politics a…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/)