Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 4

When you hear such words, ask: who is in prison, who stole, who used force, and who is being protected by the soft word?

Who acts: you, prison, soft word · What happens: hear, ask, be, steal, use, protect · To what, where: such words, prison, force · 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 (you, prison, soft word), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 hear	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	advcl
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 prison	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 prison	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prison	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 prison	case
12	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stole	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stole	nsubj
15	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prison	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 used	nsubj
18	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prison	conj
19	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 used	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 protected	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 protected	cc
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 protected	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 protected	aux:pass
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 protected	aux:pass
25	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 prison	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 word	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 word	det
28	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 word	amod
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 protected	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	present	you	such words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			prison	tree rules
4	steal	past	prison			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	use	past	prison	force		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient
6	protect	present · passive	the soft word	prison		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary

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:4.

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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