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title: "Use of force" is the official phrase for violence by police. — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Use of force" is the official phrase for violence by police. Who acts: Use. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 18

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"Use of force" is the official phrase for violence by police.

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**Who acts:** Use · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** official phrase, force

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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 (Use), 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:18
# text = "Use of force" is the official phrase for violence by police.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Use of force | the official phrase |  |  |  | for violence by police | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** *in a quote* |  |  | force |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:18`.

**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): 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/).

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