Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 23
An "inoperative statement" is a US political phrase for a statement now admitted to be false.
Who acts: inoperative statement · What happens: be, admit · To what, where: US political phrase, statement
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 (inoperative statement), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 statement | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 statement | punct |
| 3 | inoperative | inoperative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 statement | amod |
| 4 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 phrase | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 statement | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 phrase | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 phrase | det |
| 8 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 phrase | compound |
| 9 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 phrase | amod |
| 10 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 statement | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 statement | det |
| 13 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 phrase | nmod |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 admitted | advmod |
| 15 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 statement | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 false | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 false | cop |
| 18 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 admitted | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a inoperative statement | a US political phrase | for a statement | tree rules | |||
| 2 | admit speech: other | participle | a statement not said here | now | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | false property | tree rules |
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:23.
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): R5-strong ×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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