The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 17
A shrug can mean "I don't know", "I'd rather not" or "maybe"; only a clear yes is a yes.
Who acts: shrug, Punishing, clear yes · What happens: mean, not know, be · To what, where: yes · 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 (shrug, Punishing, clear yes), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shrug | det |
| 2 | shrug | shrug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mean | ccomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 clear | nsubj |
| 14 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 clear | aux |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 25 clear | advmod |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 clear | advmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 clear | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 clear | cc |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 maybe | punct |
| 20 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 25 clear | advmod |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 maybe | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 yes | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 yes | det |
| 25 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 yes | amod |
| 26 | yes | yes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 yes | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 yes | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 yes | det |
| 29 | yes | yes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | a shrug | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Punishing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a clear yes | a yes | 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:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:17.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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