--- title: Many people find it hard to say no, so it is kind to ask in a way th… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics description: Many people find it hard to say no, so it is kind to ask in a way that makes saying no easy. Who acts: Many people, it, way. 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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, it, way), 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:19 # text = Many people find it hard to say no, so it is kind to ask in a way that makes saying no easy. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 find find 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 3 expl _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 csubj _ _ 8 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 7 discourse _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | Many people | shrug | | | | hard *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | it | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | a way | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | a way | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a way *not said here* | no easy | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent easy=Topic | 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:19`. **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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