The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 18

You need a real yes before taking something or doing something to someone; if they don't answer, ask again or wait.

Who acts: You, yes · What happens: need, take, do, not answer, ask, wait · To what, where: real yes, something

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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 yes	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yes	amod
5	yes	yes	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 taking	mark
7	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 need	advcl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 taking	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 doing	cc
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 taking	conj
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 doing	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 someone	case
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 doing	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 answer	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 answer	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 answer	advmod
19	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ask	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 answer	punct
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	parataxis
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 ask	advmod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 wait	cc
24	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ask	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	You	a real yes			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot yes=Theme
2	take	gerund	You not said here	something			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	do	gerund	You not said here	something		to someone	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	not answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	yes				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive			again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:18.

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): no change. 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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