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description: Many people think it unfair to punish a whole class for what one person did, though teachers sometimes do it when nobody owns up; it is disputed. Who acts: Many people, one person, teachers, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religi
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# Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 16

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Many people think it unfair to punish a whole class for what one person did, though teachers sometimes do it when nobody owns up; it is disputed.

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**Who acts:** Many people, one person, teachers, nobody · **What happens:** think, punish, do, own up, dispute · **To what, where:** whole class, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion ethics 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 (Many people, one person, teachers, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:16
# text = Many people think it unfair to punish a whole class for what one person did, though teachers sometimes do it when nobody owns up; it is disputed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advcl
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
24	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Many people |  |  |  |  | unfair *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **punish** | to-infinitive |  | a whole class |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent class=Patient for what=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | one person |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | present | teachers | person |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **own up** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **dispute** | present · passive |  | person |  |  |  |  | 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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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

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