--- title: A threat far bigger than the thing it is about is called a dispropor… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics description: A threat far bigger than the thing it is about is called a disproportionate threat; a fair rule is one you can actually keep. Who acts: fair rule, you. 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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 (fair rule, you), 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:20 # text = A threat far bigger than the thing it is about is called a disproportionate threat; a fair rule is one you can actually keep. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 disproportionate disproportionate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 parataxis _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 actually actually ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | a threat | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | a fair rule | one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | can | you | | | | | actually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:20`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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