--- title: In a group people often act worse than each would alone; this is som… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics description: In a group people often act worse than each would alone; this is sometimes called mob mentality, and "everyone did it" does not make it fine. Who acts: people, everyone. 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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), 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:8 # text = In a group people often act worse than each would alone; this is sometimes called mob mentality, and "everyone did it" does not make it fine. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 act act VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 7 worse bad ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 11 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:aux 11 alone alone ADV RB _ 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:cop 15 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 16 advmod _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 mob mob NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 mentality mentality NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 28 nsubj _ _ 23 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 26 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **act** | present | people | | | a group | | bad, often *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | this | | | | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | | mentality | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | everyone | mentality | | | | fine *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | 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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:8`. **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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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