Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 0
Prison, crime and police violence are hard things, so people find softer words for them.
Who acts: Prison crime, people · What happens: be, find · To what, where: hard things, softer words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» of the euphemisms 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 (Prison crime, people), 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 | Prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crime | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crime | punct |
| 3 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 things | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 violence | cc |
| 5 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 violence | compound |
| 6 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crime | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | cop |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 find | advmod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | nsubj |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | parataxis |
| 14 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 words | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 things | 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 | Prison crime and police violence | hard things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present | people | softer words | for crime | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent word=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
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:euphemisms:027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-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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