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title: Blaming someone innocent, accusing without proof, or getting someone… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Blaming someone innocent, accusing without proof, or getting someone into trouble on purpose are among the worst, because an innocent person suffers. Who acts: someone, innocent person. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Lies that do real harm, sentence 1

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Blaming someone innocent, accusing without proof, or getting someone into trouble on purpose are among the worst, because an innocent person suffers.

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**Who acts:** someone, innocent person · **What happens:** blame, accuse, get, be, suffer · **To what, where:** someone, trouble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday 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 (someone, innocent person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:1
# text = Blaming someone innocent, accusing without proof, or getting someone into trouble on purpose are among the worst, because an innocent person suffers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 197-harmful-lies.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	accusing	accuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	suffers	suffer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
| 2 | **accuse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | without proof | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | gerund |  | someone |  | trouble |  | on purpose | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent someone=Theme on purpose=Source |
| 4 | **is** | present | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **suffer** | present | a innocent person |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, 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.

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

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