--- title: Owning up quickly stops an innocent person suffering any longer. — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics description: Owning up quickly stops an innocent person suffering any longer. Who acts: Owning, innocent person. 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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 19 Owning up quickly stops an innocent person suffering any longer. **Who acts:** Owning, innocent person · **What happens:** own up, stop, suffering · **To what, where:** innocent person 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 (Owning, innocent person), 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:19 # text = Owning up quickly stops an innocent person suffering any longer. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 4 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 suffering suffering VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 9 any any ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | quickly *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **stop** | present | Owning | a innocent person | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality person=Eventuality | | 3 | **suffering** | gerund | a innocent person *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | 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:19`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Putting the blame on someone else, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/18/) - next →: [When someone else takes your punishment, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/)