--- title: Blaming others for your bad mark stops you seeing what you need to f… — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics description: Blaming others for your bad mark stops you seeing what you need to fix. Who acts: Blaming, you, your. 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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 14 Blaming others for your bad mark stops you seeing what you need to fix. **Who acts:** Blaming, you, your · **What happens:** blame, stop, see, need, fix, mark · **To what, where:** others, you 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, your), 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:14 # text = Blaming others for your bad mark stops you seeing what you need to fix. # 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 Blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 . . 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 | **blame** | gerund | | others | | | | for your bad mark | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme for mark=Attribute | | 2 | **stop** | present | Blaming | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | gerund | Blaming *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 4 | **need** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **mark** | | your | | | | | | nom mark «cognition transitive»: 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:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:14`. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/13/) - next →: [Putting the blame on someone else, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/)