Karen: Hiya, I’d like to report my daughter as missing please.
Further to your analysis: I'm tempted to play a game of "replace the words".
Karen: Hiya, I’d like to order a large pizza please.
Works perfectly fine!
Karen: I can't find my daughter, I don't know where she is, I looked all over the house and can't find her.
Karen: I can't find my large pizza, I don't know where it is, I looked all over the house and can't find it.
Doesn't work.
To illustrate how out of place her choice of words is. What is her focus? She is starting with: I'd like to report - that is her focus. That she WOULD LIKE to report something. That is also out of place, no parent LIKES to report a missing child. She is not lying here - she LIKES to report it, because that is the first inevitable step to the money she wants to acquire.
Only after that comes "my daughter" - no name, indicating a strained relationship.
There is no indication that any search is going on, interrupted for an urgent call to police. The fact that she is "missing" is well accepted, it is not questioned. Missing is a loaded word. Missing person posters. Police reports about searches for missing persons. It would be expected for a biological parent to not be able to accept that offensive and scary word that easily. She is reporting a fact where more denial of that harsh reality is expected. "I can't find my daughter anywhere, she didn't come home from school, .... "
Karen: Hiya, I’d like to report my daughter as missing please.
Further to your analysis: I'm tempted to play a game of "replace the words".
Karen: Hiya, I’d like to order a large pizza please.
Works perfectly fine!
Karen: I can't find my daughter, I don't know where she is, I looked all over the house and can't find her.
Karen: I can't find my large pizza, I don't know where it is, I looked all over the house and can't find it.
Doesn't work.
To illustrate how out of place her choice of words is. What is her focus? She is starting with: I'd like to report - that is her focus. That she WOULD LIKE to report something. That is also out of place, no parent LIKES to report a missing child. She is not lying here - she LIKES to report it, because that is the first inevitable step to the money she wants to acquire.
Only after that comes "my daughter" - no name, indicating a strained relationship.
There is no indication that any search is going on, interrupted for an urgent call to police. The fact that she is "missing" is well accepted, it is not questioned. Missing is a loaded word. Missing person posters. Police reports about searches for missing persons. It would be expected for a biological parent to not be able to accept that offensive and scary word that easily. She is reporting a fact where more denial of that harsh reality is expected. "I can't find my daughter anywhere, she didn't come home from school, .... "