--- title: A vivid example: "We degraded the enemy's capability" can mean "we b… — Soft words for hard things: war, the military an… · tree and pragmatics description: A vivid example: "We degraded the enemy's capability" can mean "we bombed them and many people died". Who acts: We, vivid example, many 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 (We, vivid example, many 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:3 # text = A vivid example: "We degraded the enemy's capability" can mean "we bombed them and many people died". # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 degraded degrade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl:relcl 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 capability capability NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bombed bomb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **degrade** *in a quote* | past | We | the enemy's capability | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent capability=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | can | a vivid example | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **bomb** *in a quote* | past | we | words *= word* | | | | | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **die** *in a quote* | past | many people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/)