--- title: Stealing, killing and lying are things people are ashamed of, so the… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Stealing, killing and lying are things people are ashamed of, so they hide them behind softer words. Who acts: Stealing, people. 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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 (Stealing, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:0 # text = Stealing, killing and lying are things people are ashamed of, so they hide them behind softer words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 028-stealing-and-lying.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Stealing stealing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:aux:pass 10 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 of of ADP IN _ 10 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 behind behind ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | gerund | Stealing *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | Stealing *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Stealing | things | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | people | things *not said here* | | | | ashamed *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **hide** | present | people | things *= thing* | | softer words | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient behind word=Location | 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:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/27-crime-prison-and-police/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/)