Police, courts and prison, sentence 6
Police can stop drivers to check things, such as a broken light or speeding; it is usually short and may end with a warning or a fine, and it is not the same as being arrested.
Who acts: Police, siren · What happens: stop, check, break, be, end, not be · To what, where: drivers, things
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, siren), 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 | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | aux |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 check | mark |
| 6 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stop | advcl |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 check | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 light | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 light | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 light | amod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 speeding | cc |
| 15 | speeding | speeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 short | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 short | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 short | cop |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 short | advmod |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stop | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 end | cc |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 end | aux |
| 23 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 short | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 warning | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 warning | det |
| 26 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 end | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 fine | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fine | det |
| 29 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 warning | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 same | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 same | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 same | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 same | cop |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 same | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 same | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 short | conj |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 arrested | mark |
| 38 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 arrested | aux:pass |
| 39 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 same | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | can | Police | drivers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality driver=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | check | to-infinitive | Police not said here | things | such a broken light or speeding | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | siren | short, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | end | may | siren not said here | with a warning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with warning=Subeventuality | ||||
| 6 | not is | present | siren | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | arrest | gerund · passive | siren not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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:6.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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