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title: Sam: «so unfair, it's giving prison». — The group chat that turns · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam: «so unfair, it's giving prison». Who acts: chat. A sentence of the lesson «The group chat that turns» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The group chat that turns, sentence 28

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Sam: «so unfair, it's giving prison».

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**Who acts:** chat · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** prison

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The group chat that turns» 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 (chat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:28
# text = Sam: «so unfair, it's giving prison».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 479-the-group-chat-that-turns.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
10	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	.	.	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 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | chat | prison |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prison=Theme |

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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:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:28`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

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

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