Police, courts and prison, sentence 4
Police officers are people you can go to for help if you are lost or scared.
Who acts: Police officers, you · What happens: be, go · To what, where: people
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 (Police officers, you), 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 | Police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 officers | compound |
| 2 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | cop |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 go | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 help | case |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 lost | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | cop |
| 14 | lost | lost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 go | advcl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 scared | cc |
| 16 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lost | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 people | punct |
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 | Police officers | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | can | you | people not said here | for help | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | lost property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | you not said here | tree rules |
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:4.
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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