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title: Blaming someone else for what you did hurts them twice: they get pun… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Blaming someone else for what you did hurts them twice: they get punished and they lose trust in you. Who acts: you, Blaming, truth. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lies that do real harm, sentence 8

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Blaming someone else for what you did hurts them twice: they get punished and they lose trust in you.

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**Who acts:** you, Blaming, truth · **What happens:** blame, do, hurt, punish, lose · **To what, where:** someone, truth, trust

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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 (you, Blaming, truth), 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:8
# text = Blaming someone else for what you did hurts them twice: they get punished and they lose trust in you.
# 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
1	Blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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 PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme for what=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | Blaming | truth |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 4 | **punish** | present · passive |  | truth |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **lose** | present | truth | trust |  |  |  | in you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Eventuality |

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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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**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. **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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