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title: "Justice-involved" is a US official phrase for having a criminal rec… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Justice-involved" is a US official phrase for having a criminal record or past contact with the courts. Who acts: Justice involved, US official phrase. 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 depe
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# Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 21

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"Justice-involved" is a US official phrase for having a criminal record or past contact with the courts.

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**Who acts:** Justice involved, US official phrase · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** US official phrase, criminal record

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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 (Justice involved, US official phrase), 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:21
# text = "Justice-involved" is a US official phrase for having a criminal record or past contact with the courts.
# 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	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	criminal	criminal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Justice involved | a US official phrase |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | a US official phrase *not said here* | a criminal record or past contact with the courts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=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:21`.

**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/).

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