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title: "The deterrent" is the British official way to say nuclear weapons,… — Soft words for hard things: war, the military an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "The deterrent" is the British official way to say nuclear weapons, the most destructive bombs ever made. Who acts: deterrent, nuclear weapons. 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 dependency 
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# Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 21

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"The deterrent" is the British official way to say nuclear weapons, the most destructive bombs ever made.

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**Who acts:** deterrent, nuclear weapons · **What happens:** be, say, make · **To what, where:** British official way, destructive bombs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (deterrent, nuclear weapons), 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:21
# text = "The deterrent" is the British official way to say nuclear weapons, the most destructive bombs ever made.
# 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	deterrent	deterrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bombs	bomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the deterrent | the British official way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | nuclear weapons |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | participle · passive | nuclear weapons *not said here* | the destructive bombs |  |  | ever |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:21`.

**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/).

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