--- title: New children and little children are easy to blame because they can'… — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics description: New children and little children are easy to blame because they can't defend themselves well, which makes it crueller. Who acts: New children, children. 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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 (New children, children), 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:11 # text = New children and little children are easy to blame because they can't defend themselves well, which makes it crueller. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 New New ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:csubj 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 15 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 well well ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 crueller cruel ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | New children and little children | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **blame** | to-infinitive | New children and little children *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **defend** | can | children *= child* | children *= child* | | | | well *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | | 4 | **make** | present | | work | | | | cruel *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:11`. **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: [Putting the blame on someone else, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/9/) - next →: [Putting the blame on someone else, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/)