Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 11
"The ultimate penalty" means the death penalty: the law kills (executes) the criminal.
Who acts: ultimate penalty, law · What happens: mean, kill, execute · To what, where: death penalty, criminal
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 (ultimate penalty, law), 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 | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 penalty | det |
| 3 | ultimate | ultimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 penalty | amod |
| 4 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 penalty | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 penalty | det |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 penalty | compound |
| 9 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 kills | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 law | det |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kills | nsubj |
| 13 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 executes | punct |
| 15 | executes | execute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kills | parataxis |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 executes | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 criminal | det |
| 18 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 executes | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the ultimate penalty | the death penalty | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penalty=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kill | present | the law | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | execute | present | the criminal | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criminal=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:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:11.
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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