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title: "Administrative segregation" is the US official phrase for solitary… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Administrative segregation" is the US official phrase for solitary confinement (keeping a prisoner alone in a cell, away from everyone, as a punishment). Who acts: Administrative segregation, solitary confinement. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» o
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# Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 16

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"Administrative segregation" is the US official phrase for solitary confinement (keeping a prisoner alone in a cell, away from everyone, as a punishment).

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**Who acts:** Administrative segregation, solitary confinement · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** US official phrase, prisoner, cell

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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 (Administrative segregation, solitary confinement), 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:16
# text = "Administrative segregation" is the US official phrase for solitary confinement (keeping a prisoner alone in a cell, away from everyone, as a punishment).
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	segregation	segregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	confinement	confinement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Administrative segregation | the US official phrase |  |  |  | for solitary confinement; away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | solitary confinement *not said here* | a prisoner |  | a cell |  | as a punishment | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme in cell=Location |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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/).

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