--- title: "Kinetic action" is US military jargon for a real attack with weapon… — Soft words for hard things: war, the military an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Kinetic action" is US military jargon for a real attack with weapons that kills or destroys. Who acts: Kinetic action, 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 tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/) / 9 # Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 9 "Kinetic action" is US military jargon for a real attack with weapons that kills or destroys. **Who acts:** Kinetic action, weapons · **What happens:** be, kill, destroy · **To what, where:** US military jargon 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 (Kinetic action, 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:9 # text = "Kinetic action" is US military jargon for a real attack with weapons that kills or destroys. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Kinetic Kinetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 action action 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 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 jargon jargon NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj 16 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 destroys destroy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Kinetic action | US military jargon | | | | for a real attack with weapons | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | present | weapons | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **destroy** | present | weapons *not said here* | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×3, 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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/8/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/)