--- title: But silence is not a yes, and a shrug is not a yes either. — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics description: But silence is not a yes, and a shrug is not a yes either. Who acts: silence, shrug. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 8 But silence is not a yes, and a shrug is not a yes either. **Who acts:** silence, shrug · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** yes 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 (silence, shrug), 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:8 # text = But silence is not a yes, and a shrug is not a yes either. # 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 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 yes yes NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shrug shrug NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 yes yes NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 15 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **not** **is a** | present | silence | a yes and a yes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a shrug | a yes | | | | either *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [The whole class punished, and "you did…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/7/) - next →: [The whole class punished, and "you did…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/)