--- title: Computers keep a history of files, so «the computer deleted it» is e… — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics description: Computers keep a history of files, so «the computer deleted it» is easy to check. Who acts: Computers. 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. --- [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/13/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/) / 13 # Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 13 Computers keep a history of files, so «the computer deleted it» is easy to check. **Who acts:** Computers · **What happens:** keep, delete, be, check · **To what, where:** history, computer · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Computers), 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:13 # text = Computers keep a history of files, so «the computer deleted it» is easy to check. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 files file NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 8 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 12 deleted delete VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 csubj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Computers | a history of files | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme | | 2 | **delete** *in a quote* | past | | the computer | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Computers *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | to-infinitive | Computers *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/12/) - next →: [Putting the blame on someone else, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/)