Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 16

Many people think it unfair to punish a whole class for what one person did, though teachers sometimes do it when nobody owns up; it is disputed.

Who acts: Many people, one person, teachers, nobody · What happens: think, punish, do, own up, dispute · To what, where: whole class, person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion ethics 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 (Many people, one person, teachers, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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