--- title: Never accuse someone of something you have not seen and cannot prove… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics description: Never accuse someone of something you have not seen and cannot prove; a false accusation can damage a person's name for a long time. Who acts: you, false accusation, person. 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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 (you, false accusation, 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:9 # text = Never accuse someone of something you have not seen and cannot prove; a false accusation can damage a person's name for a long time. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 accuse accuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nmod _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 accusation accusation NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **accuse** | imperative | you *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 2 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **prove** | can | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **damage** | can | a false accusation | a person's name | | | time | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 5 | **name** | | a person | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:everyday:197-harmful-lies.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Lies that do real harm, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/8/) - next →: [Lies that do real harm, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/)