--- title: Standing by laughing while someone commits a crime can still get you… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics description: Standing by laughing while someone commits a crime can still get you questioned by the police. Who acts: someone, Standing, you. 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/29/) [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/) / 29 # When the police come, sentence 29 Standing by laughing while someone commits a crime can still get you questioned by the police. **Who acts:** someone, Standing, you · **What happens:** stand, laugh, commit, get, question · **To what, where:** crime, you 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 (someone, Standing, you), 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:29 # text = Standing by laughing while someone commits a crime can still get you questioned by the police. # 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): no change 1 Standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 2 by by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 3 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 commits commit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 still still ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 questioned question VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=warn, indirect=0, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **commit** | present | someone | a crime | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme | | 4 | **get** | can | Standing | you | | | still | | tree rules | | 5 | **question** *speech: other* | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | by the police | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:29`. **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): no change. **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, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/28/) - next →: [When the police come, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/)