--- title: Officials use long words that sound like paperwork: stealing money b… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Officials use long words that sound like paperwork: stealing money becomes "misappropriation of funds", fraud becomes "irregularities", a lie becomes an "inoperative statement". Who acts: Officials, long words, stealing, fraud. 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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 (Officials, long words, stealing, fraud), 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:1 # text = Officials use long words that sound like paperwork: stealing money becomes "misappropriation of funds", fraud becomes "irregularities", a lie becomes an "inoperative statement". # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 paperwork paperwork NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 stealing steal VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 misappropriation misappropriation NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 funds fund NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 fraud fraud NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 irregularities irregularity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 xcomp _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 inoperative inoperative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 statement statement NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Officials | long words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **sound** | present | long words | | | | | like paperwork | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **steal** | gerund | | money | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme | | 4 | **become** | present | stealing | misappropriation of funds | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **become** | present | fraud | irregularities | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **become** | present | a lie | a inoperative statement | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **misappropriate** *in a quote* | | | funds | | | | | nom misappropriation «act transitive»: of=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:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:1`. **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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/)