Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 23
"Five-finger discount" is a US joke for shoplifting.
Who acts: finger discount · What happens: be · To what, where: US joke
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 (finger discount), 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 discount | punct |
| 2 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 finger | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Five | punct |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discount | compound |
| 5 | discount | discount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joke | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 discount | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 joke | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 joke | det |
| 9 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 joke | compound |
| 10 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 shoplifting | case |
| 12 | shoplifting | shoplifting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joke | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 joke | 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 | finger discount | a US joke | for shoplifting | 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:23.
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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