Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 5
"Misappropriation of funds" means stealing money that one was trusted to look after, such as a club's treasurer (the person who looks after its money) taking it.
Who acts: Misappropriation, person · What happens: mean, steal, trust, look after, look, take · To what, where: money, one, that, misappropriation, funds
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 (Misappropriation, person), 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 | _ | 2 Misappropriation | punct |
| 2 | Misappropriation | misappropriation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 funds | case |
| 4 | funds | fund | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Misappropriation | nmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Misappropriation | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | stealing | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stealing | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 look | obj |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | PronType=Ind | 12 trusted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 trusted | aux:pass |
| 12 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 money | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trusted | xcomp |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 look | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 treasurer | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 treasurer | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 club | det |
| 20 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 treasurer | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 club | case |
| 22 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 person | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 person | det |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 treasurer | appos |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 looks | nsubj |
| 27 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 person | acl:relcl |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 money | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 money | nmod:poss |
| 30 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looks | obl |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 person | punct |
| 32 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 look | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 taking | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Misappropriation of funds | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | steal not said to happen | gerund | Misappropriation of funds not said here | money | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trust | past · passive | one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look after | to-infinitive | that | such a club's treasurer | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | present | the person | after misappropriation's money | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | take | gerund | misappropriation | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | misappropriate in a quote | funds | nom misappropriation «act transitive»: of=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:5.
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 ×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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