--- title: When Archie blamed the teacher for a bad mark, Mum looked at his rus… — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics description: When Archie blamed the teacher for a bad mark, Mum looked at his rushed book; he had to redo the work, and only when he said «I didn't try» could he ask for the help he needed. Who acts: Archie, Mum. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archie, Mum), 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:9 # text = When Archie blamed the teacher for a bad mark, Mum looked at his rushed book; he had to redo the work, and only when he said «I didn't try» could he ask for the help he needed. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Archie Archie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 redo redo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 when when SCONJ WRB _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 19 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** | past | Archie | the teacher | | | | for a bad mark | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme for mark=Attribute | | 2 | **look** | past | Mum | | | | | at Archie's rushed book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme | | 3 | **rush** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | Archie | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **redo** | to-infinitive | Archie *not said here* | the work | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Archie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **not** **try** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Archie | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | could | Archie | | | | | for the help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **need** | past | Archie | the help *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | 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:9`. **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): 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/8/) - next →: [Putting the blame on someone else, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/)