Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 13
"Helping police with their inquiries" is a British phrase for being questioned as a suspect (a person the police think may have done the crime).
Who acts: Helping, police · What happens: help, be, question, think, do, inquire · To what, where: police, British phrase, person, crime · 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 (Helping, police), 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 Helping | punct |
| 2 | Helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 phrase | csubj |
| 3 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Helping | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 inquiries | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 inquiries | nmod:poss |
| 6 | inquiries | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Helping | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Helping | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 phrase | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 phrase | det |
| 10 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 phrase | amod |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 questioned | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 questioned | aux:pass |
| 14 | questioned | question | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 phrase | acl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 suspect | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 suspect | det |
| 17 | suspect | suspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 questioned | obl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 person | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 suspect | appos |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 police | det |
| 22 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 think | nsubj |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 person | acl:relcl |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 think | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 crime | det |
| 28 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 done | obj |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 done | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | gerund | police | with police's inquiries | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent police=Beneficiary with inquiry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Helping | a British phrase | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | question speech: other | gerund · passive | a British phrase not said here | as a suspect | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as suspect=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | the police | a person not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent person=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | may · perfect | the crime | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | inquire in a quote | police | nom inquiry «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:13.
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): R5-strong ×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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