Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 21
"Justice-involved" is a US official phrase for having a criminal record or past contact with the courts.
Who acts: Justice involved, US official phrase · What happens: be, have · To what, where: US official phrase, criminal record
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 (Justice involved, US official phrase), 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 | _ | 4 involved | punct |
| 2 | Justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 involved | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Justice | punct |
| 4 | involved | involved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 phrase | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 involved | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 phrase | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 phrase | det |
| 8 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 phrase | compound |
| 9 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 phrase | amod |
| 10 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 having | mark |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 phrase | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 record | det |
| 14 | criminal | criminal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 record | amod |
| 15 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 having | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 contact | cc |
| 17 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 contact | amod |
| 18 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 record | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 courts | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 courts | det |
| 21 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 contact | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Justice involved | a US official phrase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | a US official phrase not said here | a criminal record or past contact with the courts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=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:21.
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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