Police, courts and prison, sentence 3
Crime is on the news a lot, but most people live their whole lives without serious crime touching them.
Who acts: Crime, most people, serious crime · What happens: be, live, touch · To what, where: news, whole lives, lives
This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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 (Crime, most people, serious crime), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 news | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 news | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 news | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 news | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 live | cc |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 live | nsubj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 news | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lives | nmod:poss |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lives | amod |
| 15 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 live | obj |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 touching | mark |
| 17 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crime | amod |
| 18 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touching | nsubj |
| 19 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 live | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 touching | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Crime | the news | a lot nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | present | most people | people's whole lives | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | serious crime | lives = life | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
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, 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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.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): no change. 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.
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