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title: Who pays for damage should depend on who did it, not on who can affo… — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics
description: Who pays for damage should depend on who did it, not on who can afford it. 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 15

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Who pays for damage should depend on who did it, not on who can afford it.

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**What happens:** pay, depend, not afford · **To what, where:** damage

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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: 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:15
# text = Who pays for damage should depend on who did it, not on who can afford it.
# 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	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	csubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for damage | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for damage=Theme |
| 2 | **depend** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **afford** | can |  | damage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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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