Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 11
"Away" can mean in prison, as in "Her dad's away for a while".
Who acts: Away · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: dad · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Away), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Away | punct |
| 2 | Away | Away | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Away | punct |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 away | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 away | mark |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 away | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 away | punct |
| 12 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dad | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 away | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dad | cop |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 mean | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 while | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 away | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 away | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | Away | in prison | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in prison=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Away's dad | 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:euphemisms:027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson:11.
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. 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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