--- title: Letting someone take your punishment is like stealing from them: you… — When someone else takes your punishment · tree and pragmatics description: Letting someone take your punishment is like stealing from them: you take their good name and their free time. Who acts: someone, Letting, you, your. 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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 (someone, Letting, you, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:0 # text = Letting someone take your punishment is like stealing from them: you take their good name and their free time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.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 Letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 like like SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | gerund | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | your punishment | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Letting | | | | | from them *= they*; steal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | present | you | their good name and name's free time | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | | 5 | **punish** | | your | | | | | | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **name** | | their *= they* | | | | | | nom name «communication 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:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:0`. **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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/19/) - next →: [When someone else takes your punishment, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/)