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title: "Battle fatigue" is an old name for the mental injury soldiers get f… — Soft words for hard things: war, the military an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Battle fatigue" is an old name for the mental injury soldiers get from combat, now called trauma. Who acts: Battle fatigue, injury soldiers. 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 tr
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# Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 22

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"Battle fatigue" is an old name for the mental injury soldiers get from combat, now called trauma.

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**Who acts:** Battle fatigue, injury soldiers · **What happens:** be, get, call · **To what, where:** old name, combat, trauma · **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 (Battle fatigue, injury soldiers), 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:22
# text = "Battle fatigue" is an old name for the mental injury soldiers get from combat, now called trauma.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
12	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
20	trauma	trauma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | Battle fatigue | a old name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | the injury soldiers | a old name *not said here* |  | combat |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent name=Theme from combat=Source |
| 3 | **call** | participle | Battle fatigue *not said here* | trauma |  |  | now |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:22`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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