The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 24

"I'll think about it" is not a promise; stretching what words mean to suit yourself is called equivocation.

Who acts: I, words, stretching · What happens: think, not be, stretch, mean, suit, call · To what, where: promise, yourself, equivocation · 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 (I, words, stretching), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promise	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 promise	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 promise	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 promise	det
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
13	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 called	csubj
14	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mean	nsubj
16	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stretching	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 suit	mark
18	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 mean	xcomp
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 suit	obj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 called	aux:pass
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	equivocation	equivocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	future	I		about person	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	not be speech: promise	present		a promise		tree rules
3	stretch	gerund				tree rules
4	mean	present	what words			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	suit not said to happen	to-infinitive	what words not said here	yourself		tree rules
6	call speech: assert	present · passive	stretching	equivocation		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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:24.

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 ×1. 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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