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title: Punishing a whole group for what one person did is called collective… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics
description: Punishing a whole group for what one person did is called collective punishment; it is unfair to those who did nothing. Who acts: one person, Punishing, person. 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 dependen
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# The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 14

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Punishing a whole group for what one person did is called collective punishment; it is unfair to those who did nothing.

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**Who acts:** one person, Punishing, person · **What happens:** punish, do, call, be · **To what, where:** whole group, collective punishment, nothing · **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 (one person, Punishing, person), 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:14
# text = Punishing a whole group for what one person did is called collective punishment; it is unfair to those who did nothing.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Punishing	punish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	collective	collective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **punish** | gerund |  | a whole group |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | one person |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Punishing | collective punishment |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is** | present | person |  |  |  |  | to those; unfair *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

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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:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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