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title: Clearing the name of the person you blamed, in front of the same peo… — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics
description: Clearing the name of the person you blamed, in front of the same people, is part of putting it right. Who acts: you, Clearing, part. 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 claus
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# Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 18

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Clearing the name of the person you blamed, in front of the same people, is part of putting it right.

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**Who acts:** you, Clearing, part · **What happens:** clear, blame, be, put, name · **To what, where:** name, front, person, part

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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 (you, Clearing, part), 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:18
# text = Clearing the name of the person you blamed, in front of the same people, is part of putting it right.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	blamed	blame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **clear** | gerund |  | the name of the person |  | front of the same people |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent name=Source |
| 2 | **blame** | past | you | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Clearing | part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | part *not said here* | person |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | the person |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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:18`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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