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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 (armies, cool sounding words, attack, retreat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:1 # text = So armies and governments invent cool, technical-sounding words that hide the blood: an attack becomes "kinetic action", a retreat becomes a "tactical redeployment". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 026-war-and-the-military.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 ×2 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 invent invent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 technical technical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 sounding sound VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 21 kinetic kinetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 retreat retreat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 tactical tactical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 redeployment redeployment NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 . . 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 | **invent** | present | armies and governments | cool sounding words | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Result | | 2 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **hide** | present | cool sounding words | the blood | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | a attack | kinetic action | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **become** | present | a retreat | a tactical redeployment | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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: war, the m…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/)