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title: Only a clear yes is a yes. — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics
description: Only a clear yes is a yes. Who acts: clear 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 9

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Only a clear yes is a yes.

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**Who acts:** clear yes · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** yes

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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 (clear 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:9
# text = Only a clear yes is a yes.
# 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	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	yes	yes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	yes	yes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a clear yes | a yes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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