--- title: You need a real yes before taking something or doing something to so… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics description: You need a real yes before taking something or doing something to someone; if they don't answer, ask again or wait. Who acts: You, yes. 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 pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [The whole class punished, and "you did…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/) / 18 # The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 18 You need a real yes before taking something or doing something to someone; if they don't answer, ask again or wait. **Who acts:** You, yes · **What happens:** need, take, do, not answer, ask, wait · **To what, where:** real yes, something 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 (You, yes), 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:18 # text = You need a real yes before taking something or doing something to someone; if they don't answer, ask again or wait. # 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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 yes yes NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 22 again again ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | You | a real yes | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot yes=Theme | | 2 | **take** | gerund | You *not said here* | something | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 3 | **do** | gerund | You *not said here* | something | | | | to someone | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | yes | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | again | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:18`. **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. 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