The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 19

Many people find it hard to say no, so it is kind to ask in a way that makes saying no easy.

Who acts: Many people, it, way · What happens: find, say, be, ask, make · To what, where: shrug, way, easy · 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 (Many people, it, way), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	expl
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 find	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	csubj
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 say	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 kind	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kind	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kind	cop
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 find	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ask	mark
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 kind	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 makes	nsubj
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 way	acl:relcl
21	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 makes	xcomp
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 easy	det
23	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 saying	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	Many people	shrug		hard property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it			kind property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			a way		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	present	a way				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	gerund	a way not said here	no easy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent easy=Topic

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:19.

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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