Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 3
A vivid example: shops call stolen goods "shrinkage", as if the stock just got smaller by itself.
Who acts: shops, stock · What happens: call, steal, get · To what, where: stolen goods · 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 (shops, stock), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 example | det |
| 2 | vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 example | amod |
| 3 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 5 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 call | nsubj |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 example | parataxis |
| 7 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 goods | amod |
| 8 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 call | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shrinkage | punct |
| 10 | shrinkage | shrinkage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goods | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shrinkage | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 got | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 got | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stock | det |
| 16 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | nsubj |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | advcl |
| 19 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 got | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 itself | case |
| 21 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 got | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 example | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | shops | stolen goods | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goods=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get | past | the stock | by stock; small property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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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