--- title: Officials and businesses use words to hide or spin: "human error" hi… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: Officials and businesses use words to hide or spin: "human error" hides who exactly made the mistake, and "a correction" makes a crash in prices sound like a neat tidy-up. Who acts: Officials, human error, correction, crash. 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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 (Officials, human error, correction, crash), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:033-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:2 # text = Officials and businesses use words to hide or spin: "human error" hides who exactly made the mistake, and "a correction" makes a crash in prices sound like a neat tidy-up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 033-failure-and-mistakes.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 error error NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl:relcl 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 correction correction NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 35 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 tidy tidy NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Officials and businesses | words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Officials and businesses *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spin** | infinitive | Officials and businesses *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hide** | present | human error | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | past | | the mistake | | | | exactly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | | 6 | **make** | present | a correction | a crash | | prices | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sound** | infinitive | a crash *not said here* | | | | | like a neat tidy up | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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. 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