Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 8
In a group people often act worse than each would alone; this is sometimes called mob mentality, and "everyone did it" does not make it fine.
Who acts: people, everyone · What happens: act, call, do, not make · To what, where: group, this, mentality · 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), 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 group | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 group | det |
| 3 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 act | obl |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 act | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 act | advmod |
| 6 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | advcl |
| 7 | worse | bad | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 act | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 alone | mark |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 alone | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 alone | aux |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 worse | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 called | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 called | advmod |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | mob | mob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mentality | compound |
| 18 | mentality | mentality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 everyone | punct |
| 22 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 make | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | obj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 26 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 make | advmod |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 called | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 make | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | present | people | a group | bad, often property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | this | sometimes property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | mentality | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not make | present · do-support | everyone | mentality | fine property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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:8.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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