--- title: Police can stop drivers to check things, such as a broken light or s… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: Police can stop drivers to check things, such as a broken light or speeding; it is usually short and may end with a warning or a fine, and it is not the same as being arrested. Who acts: Police, siren. 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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 (Police, siren), 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:6 # text = Police can stop drivers to check things, such as a broken light or speeding; it is usually short and may end with a warning or a fine, and it is not the same as being arrested. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 13 case _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 speeding speeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 usually usually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 arrested arrest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | can | Police | drivers | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality driver=Eventuality | | 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | Police *not said here* | things | | | | such a broken light or speeding | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | siren | | | | | short, usually *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **end** | may | siren *not said here* | | | | | with a warning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with warning=Subeventuality | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | siren | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **arrest** | gerund · passive | siren *not said here* | | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | 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:6`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Police, courts and prison, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/5/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)