Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 2

Ordinary people joke instead: stolen goods "fell off the back of a lorry", and a liar is "telling porkies".

Who acts: Ordinary people, stolen goods, liar · What happens: joke, steal, fall off, tell · To what, where: back, porkies · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ordinary people, stolen goods, liar), 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	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 joke	nsubj
3	joke	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 joke	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
6	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 goods	amod
7	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 fell	nsubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 joke	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 back	det
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lorry	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lorry	det
15	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 telling	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 telling	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 liar	det
20	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 telling	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 telling	aux
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 telling	punct
23	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fell	conj
24	porkies	porky	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 telling	obj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 telling	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 joke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	Ordinary people		instead property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	steal	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall off in a quote	past	stolen goods	the back of a lorry		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient back=Extent
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	a liar	porkies		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porky=Recipient

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:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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