--- title: When you hear such words, ask: who is in prison, who stole, who used… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: When you hear such words, ask: who is in prison, who stole, who used force, and who is being protected by the soft word? Who acts: you, prison, soft word. 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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 (you, prison, soft word), 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:4 # text = When you hear such words, ask: who is in prison, who stole, who used force, and who is being protected by the soft word? # 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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | you | such words | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | prison | | | tree rules | | 4 | **steal** | past | prison | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | past | prison | force | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | | 6 | **protect** | present · passive | the soft word | prison | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | 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:4`. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/)