Police, courts and prison, sentence 8

Being arrested means the police think someone may have committed a crime and will question them; it is not yet proof.

Who acts: police, someone, siren · What happens: arrest, mean, think, commit, question, not be · To what, where: crime, police, proof · Speech: someone speaks here

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, someone, 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 arrested	aux:pass
2	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	csubj:pass
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 police	det
5	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 committed	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 committed	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 committed	aux
10	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 think	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crime	det
12	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 committed	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 question	cc
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 question	aux
15	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 question	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 proof	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 proof	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 proof	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 proof	advmod
21	yet	yet	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 proof	advmod
22	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	arrest	gerund · passive				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	present	the police			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	commit	may · perfect	someone	a crime		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme
5	question speech: other	future	the police not said here	police		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	not is a	present	siren	proof	yet	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:8.

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): 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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