--- title: "Known to police" means a person has a criminal record (a police lis… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: "Known to police" means a person has a criminal record (a police list of crimes they were found guilty of). Who acts: person. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/15/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/) / 15 # Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 15 "Known to police" means a person has a criminal record (a police list of crimes they were found guilty of). **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** know, mean, have, find, list · **To what, where:** criminal record, crime, crimes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» of the euphemisms 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 (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson:15 # text = "Known to police" means a person has a criminal record (a police list of crimes they were found guilty of). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 027-crime-prison-and-police.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 criminal criminal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 crimes crime NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 22 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | to police | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | present | a person | a criminal record | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Patient | | 4 | **find** | past · passive | | crime | | | | guilty *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **list** | | | crimes | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:euphemisms:027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/14/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/)