--- title: Ordinary people joke instead: stolen goods "fell off the back of a l… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Ordinary people joke instead: stolen goods "fell off the back of a lorry", and a liar is "telling porkies". Who acts: Ordinary people, stolen goods, liar. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 2 Ordinary people joke instead: stolen goods "fell off the back of a lorry", and a liar is "telling porkies". **Who acts:** Ordinary people, stolen goods, liar · **What happens:** joke, steal, fall off, tell · **To what, where:** back, porkies · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» 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 (Ordinary people, stolen goods, liar), 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:2 # text = Ordinary people joke instead: stolen goods "fell off the back of a lorry", and a liar is "telling porkies". # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 joke joke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 instead instead ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 9 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 off off ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 liar liar NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 24 porkies porky NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | Ordinary people | | | | | instead *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **steal** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall off** *in a quote* | past | stolen goods | the back of a lorry | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient back=Extent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · progressive | a liar | porkies | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porky=Recipient | 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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/)