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title: In a crowd people do things they would never do alone, because every… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics
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# Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 4

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In a crowd people do things they would never do alone, because everyone thinks someone else is in charge; the frightened face keeps coming back because deep down Finn knows it was cruel, and that is his conscience working, not proof he is rotten all the way through.

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**Who acts:** people, everyone, frightened face, Finn, face, that · **What happens:** do, not do, think, be, keep, come back · **To what, where:** things, crowd, someone, charge, conscience, proof · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection 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 (people, everyone, frightened face, Finn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:4
# text = In a crowd people do things they would never do alone, because everyone thinks someone else is in charge; the frightened face keeps coming back because deep down Finn knows it was cruel, and that is his conscience working, not proof he is rotten all the way through.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	frightened	frighten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	down	down	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
42	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:conj
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	51	det:predet	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	through	through	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | people | things |  | a crowd |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **do** | would | people | things *not said here* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | everyone | someone |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  | charge |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | present | the frightened face |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come back** | gerund | the frightened face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **know** | present | Finn |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is** | past | face |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **is a** | present | that | thing's conscience |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **work** | gerund | thing's conscience *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **is** | present | Finn | proof *not said here* |  |  |  | all way *obl*; rotten *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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, 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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