Police, courts and prison, sentence 9

A burglary is when someone breaks into a home to steal; victims are often upset most by feeling unsafe, and insurance can pay for some of what was taken.

Who acts: burglary, victims, insurance · What happens: be, steal, feel, pay, take · To what, where: home

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 (burglary, victims, insurance), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 burglary	det
2	burglary	burglary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 breaks	cop
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 breaks	advmod
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 breaks	nsubj
6	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 home	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 home	det
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 steal	mark
11	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 breaks	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 victims	punct
13	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 upset	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 upset	cop
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 upset	advmod
16	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 breaks	parataxis
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 upset	advmod
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 feeling	mark
19	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 upset	advcl
20	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 feeling	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pay	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pay	cc
23	insurance	insurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pay	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pay	aux
25	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 upset	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 some	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 pay	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 what	case
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 some	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taken	aux:pass
31	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 upset	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a burglary	a home	break property	tree rules
2	steal	to-infinitive	a burglary not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	victims		often, upset property	tree rules
4	feel	gerund	victims not said here		unsafe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	pay	can	insurance		for some	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for some=Theme
6	take	past · passive				vn bring-11.3 «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:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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