Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 4

In a crowd people do things they would never do alone, because everyone thinks someone else is in charge; the frightened face keeps coming back because deep down Finn knows it was cruel, and that is his conscience working, not proof he is rotten all the way through.

Who acts: people, everyone, frightened face, Finn, face, that · What happens: do, not do, think, be, keep, come back · To what, where: things, crowd, someone, charge, conscience, proof · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection 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 (people, everyone, frightened face, Finn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 crowd	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 things	acl:relcl
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 thinks	mark
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 thinks	nsubj
15	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
16	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 thinks	obj
17	else	else	ADV	_	16 someone	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 charge	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 charge	case
20	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 someone	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 keeps	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 face	det
23	frightened	frighten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keeps	nsubj
25	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thinks	conj
26	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 keeps	xcomp
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 coming	advmod
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 knows	mark
29	deep	deep	ADV	_	30 down	advmod
30	down	down	ADV	_	32 knows	advmod
31	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 knows	nsubj
32	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 keeps	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cruel	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 cruel	cop
35	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 knows	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 conscience	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 conscience	cc
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 conscience	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 conscience	cop
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 conscience	nmod:poss
41	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knows	conj
42	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 conscience	acl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 proof	punct
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 proof	advmod
45	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 conscience	parataxis
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 rotten	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 rotten	cop
48	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 proof	acl:relcl
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 way	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 way	det
51	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 rotten	obl
52	through	through	ADV	_	51 way	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	people	things	a crowd		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	not do	would	people	things not said here		alone property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	present	everyone	someone			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
4	is	present			charge		tree rules
5	keep	present	the frightened face				tree rules
6	come back	gerund	the frightened face not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	know	present	Finn			down property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	face			cruel property	tree rules
9	is a	present	that	thing's conscience			tree rules
10	work	gerund	thing's conscience not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is	present	Finn	proof not said here		all way obl; rotten property	tree rules

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, 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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:4.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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