When the police come, sentence 32
Community police officers visit schools to help children stay safe, not only to catch people.
Who acts: police officers, children · What happens: visit, help, stay, not catch · To what, where: schools, children, people
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 officers, children), 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 | Community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 police | compound |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 officers | compound |
| 3 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 visit | nsubj |
| 4 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 visit | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 visit | advcl |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 10 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stay | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 catch | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 catch | advmod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 catch | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 catch | mark |
| 15 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | conj |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 catch | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 visit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | police officers | schools | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | police officers not said here | children | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | children not said here | safe property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not catch | to-infinitive | police officers not said here | people | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:32.
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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