--- title: Police are not only there to catch people; they keep people safe and… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics description: Police are not only there to catch people; they keep people safe and stop things getting worse. Who acts: Police. A sentence of the lesson «When the police come» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/18/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [When the police come](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/) / 18 # When the police come, sentence 18 Police are not only there to catch people; they keep people safe and stop things getting worse. **Who acts:** Police · **What happens:** not be, catch, keep, stop, get · **To what, where:** people, things This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» of the everyday 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 (Police), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:18 # text = Police are not only there to catch people; they keep people safe and stop things getting worse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 384-when-the-police-come.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 18 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Police | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Police *not said here* | people | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | police | people | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | present | police *not said here* | things | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | gerund | police *not said here* | | | | | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:18`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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: [When the police come, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/17/) - next →: [When the police come, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/)