--- title: "Less-lethal weapon" means a weapon meant not to kill, such as a rub… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: "Less-lethal weapon" means a weapon meant not to kill, such as a rubber bullet, which can still kill. Who acts: lethal weapon, rubber bullet. 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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 (lethal weapon, rubber bullet), 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:20 # text = "Less-lethal weapon" means a weapon meant not to kill, such as a rubber bullet, which can still kill. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 Less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 lethal lethal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 weapon weapon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 weapon weapon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bullet bullet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **mean** | present | lethal weapon | a weapon | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | participle | | a weapon *not said here* | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **kill** | can | a rubber bullet | | | | still | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:20`. **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): R7-rel-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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/)