The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 14

Punishing a whole group for what one person did is called collective punishment; it is unfair to those who did nothing.

Who acts: one person, Punishing, person · What happens: punish, do, call, be · To what, where: whole group, collective punishment, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» of the world 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 (one person, Punishing, person), 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	Punishing	punish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 called	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 group	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 group	amod
4	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Punishing	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	1 Punishing	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Punishing	obl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 person	nummod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 called	aux:pass
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	collective	collective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 punishment	amod
13	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 unfair	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 unfair	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unfair	cop
17	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 called	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 those	case
19	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 unfair	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 those	acl:relcl
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 did	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	punish	gerund		a whole group		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient
2	do	past	one person			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call speech: assert	present · passive	Punishing	collective punishment		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
4	is	present	person		to those; unfair property	tree rules
5	do	past		nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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