Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 2

Ordinary people use slang and jokes instead: someone in prison is "inside" or "doing time", and a thief has "sticky fingers".

Who acts: Ordinary people, someone, thief · What happens: use, be, do, have · To what, where: slang, sticky fingers · 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 (Ordinary people, someone, thief), 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	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 jokes	cc
6	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slang	conj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 use	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 someone	punct
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 inside	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 prison	case
11	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 someone	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 inside	cop
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 inside	punct
14	inside	inside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 use	parataxis
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 inside	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 doing	cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 doing	punct
18	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 inside	conj
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 doing	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 doing	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 has	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thief	det
24	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 fingers	punct
27	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fingers	amod
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 has	obj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 fingers	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Ordinary people	slang and jokes		instead property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent slang=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present	someone			inside property	tree rules
3	do in a quote	gerund	someone not said here		time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	a thief	sticky fingers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient

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:2.

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 ×2. 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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