Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 6
"Irregularities" in official reports means fraud (cheating people out of money) or other wrongdoing.
Who acts: Irregularities, fraud · What happens: mean, cheat · To what, where: fraud, people, money
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 (Irregularities, fraud), 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 Irregularities | punct |
| 2 | Irregularities | irregularity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Irregularities | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 reports | case |
| 5 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reports | amod |
| 6 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Irregularities | nmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fraud | fraud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheating | punct |
| 10 | cheating | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fraud | acl |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cheating | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cheating | obl |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheating | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 wrongdoing | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wrongdoing | amod |
| 18 | wrongdoing | wrongdoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fraud | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | Irregularities in official reports | fraud or other wrongdoing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraud=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cheat | gerund | fraud or other wrongdoing not said here | people | money | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Source |
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:6.
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): R6-punct-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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