When the police come, sentence 29
Standing by laughing while someone commits a crime can still get you questioned by the police.
Who acts: someone, Standing, you · What happens: stand, laugh, commit, get, question · To what, where: crime, you
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 (someone, Standing, you), 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 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 get | csubj |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 laughing | mark |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Standing | advcl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 commits | mark |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 commits | nsubj |
| 6 | commits | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughing | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crime | det |
| 8 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commits | obj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | questioned | question | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 get | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 police | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 police | det |
| 16 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 questioned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=warn, indirect=0, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | commit | present | someone | a crime | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | can | Standing | you | still | tree rules | |||
| 5 | question speech: other | participle | you not said here | by the police | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:29.
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): no change. 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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