--- title: When something bad happens to someone, like a burglary, blame the pe… — Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation · tree and pragmatics description: When something bad happens to someone, like a burglary, blame the person who did it, not the person it happened to. Who acts: something, you, person, it. 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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 (something, you, person, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:17 # text = When something bad happens to someone, like a burglary, blame the person who did it, not the person it happened to. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 4 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 burglary burglary NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | something | | | | | to someone; like a burglary | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **blame** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 3 | **do** | past | the person | person | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **happen** | past | it | the person *not said here* | | | | | 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:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:17`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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