--- title: A burglary is when someone breaks into a home to steal; victims are… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: A burglary is when someone breaks into a home to steal; victims are often upset most by feeling unsafe, and insurance can pay for some of what was taken. Who acts: burglary, victims, insurance. A sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school wit --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Police, courts and prison, sentence 9 A burglary is when someone breaks into a home to steal; victims are often upset most by feeling unsafe, and insurance can pay for some of what was taken. **Who acts:** burglary, victims, insurance · **What happens:** be, steal, feel, pay, take · **To what, where:** home 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 (burglary, victims, insurance), 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:9 # text = A burglary is when someone breaks into a home to steal; victims are often upset most by feeling unsafe, and insurance can pay for some of what was taken. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 burglary burglary NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 victims victim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 17 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 16 advmod _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 unsafe unsafe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 23 insurance insurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nmod _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **is** | present | a burglary | | | a home | | break *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive | a burglary *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | victims | | | | | often, upset *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | gerund | victims *not said here* | | | | | unsafe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **pay** | can | insurance | | | | | for some | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for some=Theme | | 6 | **take** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/8/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)