--- title: If you are blamed for a classmate's mistake, you calmly explain what… — Tests, exams and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: If you are blamed for a classmate's mistake, you calmly explain what really happened. Who acts: you, classmate. A sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Tests, exams and mistakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/) / 16 # Tests, exams and mistakes, sentence 16 If you are blamed for a classmate's mistake, you calmly explain what really happened. **Who acts:** you, classmate · **What happens:** blame, explain, happen, mistake · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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, classmate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:16 # text = If you are blamed for a classmate's mistake, you calmly explain what really happened. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.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 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 nsubj _ _ 15 really really ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | you | | | | for a classmate's mistake | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for mistake=Attribute | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mistake** | | a classmate | | | | | | nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [Tests, exams and mistakes, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/15/) - next →: [Tests, exams and mistakes, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/)