Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 7
"Fell off the back of a lorry" is a British joke meaning the goods were stolen.
Who acts: Fell, British joke · What happens: be, mean, steal · To what, where: British joke, goods · 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 (Fell, British joke), 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 Fell | punct |
| 2 | Fell | Fell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 joke | nsubj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 back | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fell | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lorry | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lorry | det |
| 8 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fell | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 joke | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 joke | det |
| 12 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 joke | amod |
| 13 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 joke | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goods | det |
| 16 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stolen | aux:pass |
| 18 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 meaning | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 joke | 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 | is a | present | Fell | a British joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a British joke not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | steal | past · passive | the goods | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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:7.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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