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title: These words are mostly spin and hiding, not kindness: they make terr… — Soft words for hard things: war, the military an… · tree and pragmatics
description: These words are mostly spin and hiding, not kindness: they make terrible things sound tidy, careful or even normal. Who acts: words, terrible things. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 2

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These words are mostly spin and hiding, not kindness: they make terrible things sound tidy, careful or even normal.

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**Who acts:** words, terrible things · **What happens:** be, make, sound · **To what, where:** spin, terrible things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (words, terrible things), 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:2
# text = These words are mostly spin and hiding, not kindness: they make terrible things sound tidy, careful or even normal.
# 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): no change
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	xcomp	_	_
17	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this words | spin and hiding and kindness |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | words *= word* | terrible things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** | present | terrible things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tidy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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