Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 0
Stealing, killing and lying are things people are ashamed of, so they hide them behind softer words.
Who acts: Stealing, people · What happens: kill, lie, be, hide · To what, where: things, softer words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» 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 (Stealing, people), 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 | Stealing | stealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 killing | punct |
| 3 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stealing | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lying | cc |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stealing | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | cop |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ashamed | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ashamed | cop |
| 10 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ashamed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hide | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 hide | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hide | nsubj |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hide | obj |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 18 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hide | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 things | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | gerund | Stealing not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | Stealing not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Stealing | things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | people | things not said here | ashamed property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hide | present | people | things = thing | softer words | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient behind word=Location |
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:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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