--- title: "Ethnic cleansing" means driving out or killing a whole ethnic group… — Soft words for hard things: war, the military an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Ethnic cleansing" means driving out or killing a whole ethnic group (a people who share family roots, language or customs) from an area. Who acts: Ethnic cleansing, people. 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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 (Ethnic cleansing, people), 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:19 # text = "Ethnic cleansing" means driving out or killing a whole ethnic group (a people who share family roots, language or customs) from an area. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Ethnic ethnic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cleansing cleansing 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 driving drive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 ccomp _ _ 7 out out PART RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 ethnic ethnic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Ethnic cleansing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **drive out** | gerund | | | | a area | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from area=Trajectory | | 3 | **kill** | gerund | | a whole ethnic group | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | | 4 | **share** | present | a people | family roots and language or customs | | | | | 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:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:19`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/)