--- title: Finn told a friend's secret and then blamed his best friend for it,… — When someone else takes your punishment · tree and pragmatics description: Finn told a friend's secret and then blamed his best friend for it, scared of losing the others. Who acts: Finn. A sentence of the lesson «When someone else takes your punishment» 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/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/12/) [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/) / [When someone else takes your punishment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/) / 12 # When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 12 Finn told a friend's secret and then blamed his best friend for it, scared of losing the others. **Who acts:** Finn · **What happens:** tell, blame, lose · **To what, where:** secret, best friend, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone else takes your punishment» 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 (Finn), 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:12 # text = Finn told a friend's secret and then blamed his best friend for it, scared of losing the others. # 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): no change 1 Finn finn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 9 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Finn | a friend's secret | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient | | 2 | **blame** | past | Finn *not said here* | Finn's best friend | | | then | for secret | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent friend=Theme for it=Attribute | | 3 | **lose** | gerund | Finn *not said here* | the others | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality | 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:12`. **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. 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