--- title: Putting the blame on someone else — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Putting the blame on someone else», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Blaming someone else is a double wrong: you did the first thing, and then you hurt an innocent person. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/) [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/) / Putting the blame on someone else # Putting the blame on someone else Lesson 344 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/0/) — Blaming someone else is a double wrong: you did the first thing, and then you hurt an innocent person. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/1/) — Archie in Brisbane left the class hamster's cage open, and when the hamster got out he said the new boy did it. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/2/) — Everyone looked at the new boy, who went red and stood alone at playtime for days. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/3/) — Nobody found out. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/4/) — But Archie felt worse every day he saw the new boy alone. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/5/) — On Saturday he went to confession; the priest listened, gave absolution and a small penance, and Archie felt the knot in his chest loosen. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/8/) — Blaming also stops you getting better. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/9/) — When Archie blamed the teacher for a bad mark, Mum looked at his rushed book; he had to redo the work, and only when he said «I didn't try» could he ask for the help he needed. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/11/) — New children and little children are easy to blame because they can't defend themselves well, which makes it crueller. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/12/) — Animals and machines can't argue back, so blaming them is still lying. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/13/) — Computers keep a history of files, so «the computer deleted it» is easy to check. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/14/) — Blaming others for your bad mark stops you seeing what you need to fix. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/15/) — Who pays for damage should depend on who did it, not on who can afford it. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/16/) — In a team, blaming a teammate falsely can get him left out and makes the whole team weaker. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/17/) — Confession can ease a guilty heart, but the person you blamed still needs your sorry and the truth told. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/18/) — Clearing the name of the person you blamed, in front of the same people, is part of putting it right. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/19/) — Owning up quickly stops an innocent person suffering any longer. - ← previous: [Accidents told too late](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/) - next →: [When someone else takes your punishment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)