--- title: When a whole group stays silent, everyone may be punished, and the p… — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics description: When a whole group stays silent, everyone may be punished, and the person who did it can end it by owning up. Who acts: whole group, person. A sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Covering for a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/) / 32 # Covering for a friend, sentence 32 When a whole group stays silent, everyone may be punished, and the person who did it can end it by owning up. **Who acts:** whole group, person · **What happens:** stay, punish, do, end, own up · **To what, where:** everyone, person, group This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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 (whole group, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:32 # text = When a whole group stays silent, everyone may be punished, and the person who did it can end it by owning up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 436-covering-for-a-friend.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 6 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 11 nsubj _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | a whole group | | | | | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **punish** | may · passive | | everyone | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **do** | past | the person | person | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **end** | can | the person | group | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | | 5 | **own up** | gerund | the person *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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](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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:32`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Covering for a friend, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/31/) - next →: [Covering for a friend, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/)