--- title: Crime is on the news a lot, but most people live their whole lives w… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: Crime is on the news a lot, but most people live their whole lives without serious crime touching them. Who acts: Crime, most people, serious crime. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crime, most people, serious crime), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:3 # text = Crime is on the news a lot, but most people live their whole lives without serious crime touching them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 without without SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Crime | | | the news | | a lot *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | most people | people's whole lives | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | | 3 | **touch** | gerund | serious crime | lives *= life* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:3`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Police, courts and prison, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/2/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)