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title: Blaming someone else is a double wrong: you did the first thing, and… — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics
description: Blaming someone else is a double wrong: you did the first thing, and then you hurt an innocent person. Who acts: Blaming, you. A sentence of the lesson «Putting the blame on someone else» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 0

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Blaming someone else is a double wrong: you did the first thing, and then you hurt an innocent person.

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**Who acts:** Blaming, you · **What happens:** blame, be, do, hurt · **To what, where:** someone, double wrong, first thing, innocent person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting the blame on someone else» 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 (Blaming, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:0
# text = Blaming someone else is a double wrong: you did the first thing, and then you hurt an innocent person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.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	Blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 | **is a** | present | Blaming | a double wrong |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | you | the first thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hurt** | past | you | a innocent person |  |  | then |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Patient |

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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:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:0`.

**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/).

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