Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 19
"Officer-involved shooting" is a US official phrase meaning police shot someone.
Who acts: Officer involved shooting, US official phrase, police · What happens: be, mean, shoot · To what, where: US official phrase, someone · 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 (Officer involved shooting, US official phrase, 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 | _ | 5 shooting | punct |
| 2 | Officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shooting | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Officer | punct |
| 4 | involved | involved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shooting | amod |
| 5 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 phrase | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shooting | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 phrase | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 phrase | det |
| 9 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 phrase | compound |
| 10 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 phrase | amod |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 phrase | acl |
| 13 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shot | nsubj |
| 14 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 meaning | ccomp |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 shot | obj |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | is a | present | Officer involved shooting | a US official phrase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a US official phrase not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shoot | past | police | someone | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
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:19.
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): no change. 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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