--- title: "Misappropriation of funds" means stealing money that one was truste… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: "Misappropriation of funds" means stealing money that one was trusted to look after, such as a club's treasurer (the person who looks after its money) taking it. Who acts: Misappropriation, person. 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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 (Misappropriation, person), 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:5 # text = "Misappropriation of funds" means stealing money that one was trusted to look after, such as a club's treasurer (the person who looks after its money) taking it. # 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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Misappropriation misappropriation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 funds fund NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 stealing steal VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 10 one one PRON PRP PronType=Ind 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 17 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod 18 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 treasurer treasurer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 after after ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 32 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Misappropriation of funds | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **steal** *not said to happen* | gerund | Misappropriation of funds *not said here* | money | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme | | 3 | **trust** | past · passive | | one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look after** | to-infinitive | | that | | | | such a club's treasurer | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 5 | **look** | present | the person | | | | after misappropriation's money | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **take** | gerund | | misappropriation | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 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. 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