When the police come, sentence 18
Police are not only there to catch people; they keep people safe and stop things getting worse.
Who acts: Police · What happens: not be, catch, keep, stop, get · To what, where: people, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» of the everyday 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 (Police), 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 | Police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 there | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 there | advcl |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | parataxis |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stop | cc |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | conj |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stop | obj |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stop | xcomp |
| 18 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 getting | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Police | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | Police not said here | people | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | police | people | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 4 | stop | present | police not said here | things | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | gerund | police not said here | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:18.
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 ×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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