--- title: Ordinary people use slang and jokes instead: someone in prison is "i… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Ordinary people use slang and jokes instead: someone in prison is "inside" or "doing time", and a thief has "sticky fingers". Who acts: Ordinary people, someone, thief. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ordinary people, someone, thief), 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:2 # text = Ordinary people use slang and jokes instead: someone in prison is "inside" or "doing time", and a thief has "sticky fingers". # 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 ×2 1 Ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 instead instead ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 14 inside inside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 . . 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 | **use** | present | Ordinary people | slang and jokes | | | | instead *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent slang=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | someone | | | | | inside *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | someone *not said here* | | | | time | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | a thief | sticky fingers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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:2`. **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 ×2. **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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/)