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title: Wasting is a quiet wrong: nobody cries at once. — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasting is a quiet wrong: nobody cries at once. Who acts: Wasting, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wasting food and water, sentence 9

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Wasting is a quiet wrong: nobody cries at once.

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**Who acts:** Wasting, nobody · **What happens:** be, cry · **To what, where:** quiet wrong

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» of the everyday 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 (Wasting, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:9
# text = Wasting is a quiet wrong: nobody cries at once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wasting	wasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound
8	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wasting | a quiet wrong |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:9`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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