--- title: Being arrested means the police think someone may have committed a c… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: Being arrested means the police think someone may have committed a crime and will question them; it is not yet proof. Who acts: police, someone, siren. A sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Police, courts and prison](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/) / 8 # Police, courts and prison, sentence 8 Being arrested means the police think someone may have committed a crime and will question them; it is not yet proof. **Who acts:** police, someone, siren · **What happens:** arrest, mean, think, commit, question, not be · **To what, where:** crime, police, proof · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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, someone, 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:8 # text = Being arrested means the police think someone may have committed a crime and will question them; it is not yet proof. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 arrested arrest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 csubj:pass _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux _ _ 10 committed commit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 question question VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 yet yet ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrest** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the police | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **commit** | may · perfect | someone | a crime | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme | | 5 | **question** *speech: other* | future | the police *not said here* | police | | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | siren | proof | | | yet | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/7/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)