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title: Kids push back on the reasoning, not the teacher: "Miss, Alfie sneez… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics
description: Kids push back on the reasoning, not the teacher: "Miss, Alfie sneezed. Who acts: Kids, Alfie. A sentence of the lesson «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 12

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Kids push back on the reasoning, not the teacher: "Miss, Alfie sneezed.

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**Who acts:** Kids, Alfie · **What happens:** push back, sneeze · **To what, where:** reasoning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» of the world 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 (Kids, Alfie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:12
# text = Kids push back on the reasoning, not the teacher: "Miss, Alfie sneezed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.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): no change
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **push back** | present | Kids |  |  | the reasoning |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sneeze** *in a quote* | past | Alfie |  |  |  |  | Miss *vocative* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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