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title: Is the zoo cancelled because of Alfie's nose?" Fair rules are clear… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics
description: Is the zoo cancelled because of Alfie's nose?" Fair rules are clear before the start, and they are about who did what. Who acts: Fair rules, rules. 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 t
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# The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 13

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Is the zoo cancelled because of Alfie's nose?" Fair rules are clear before the start, and they are about who did what.

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**Who acts:** Fair rules, rules · **What happens:** cancel, be · **To what, where:** zoo

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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 (Fair rules, rules), 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:13
# text = Is the zoo cancelled because of Alfie's nose?" Fair rules are clear before the start, and they are about who did what.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	"	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
12	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cancel** | present · passive |  | the zoo |  |  |  | because Alfie's nose | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Fair rules |  |  |  | before the start | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | rules *= rule* |  |  |  |  | do *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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**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:13`.

**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. **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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