Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 13
"Social engineering" means tricking people into giving away secrets such as passwords.
Who acts: Social engineering · What happens: mean, trick, give away · To what, where: people, secrets
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 (Social engineering), 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 | _ | 3 engineering | punct |
| 2 | Social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 engineering | amod |
| 3 | engineering | engineering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 engineering | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tricking | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tricking | obj |
| 8 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 9 giving | mark |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tricking | advcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADP | _ | 9 giving | compound:prt |
| 11 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 giving | obj |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 passwords | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | passwords | password | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 secrets | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Social engineering | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | trick not said to happen | gerund | Social engineering not said here | people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give away | gerund | Social engineering not said here | secrets | such passwords | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
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:13.
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 ×3. 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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