--- title: Twisting the truth to blame a grown-up, like a babysitter, can get t… — When someone else takes your punishment · tree and pragmatics description: Twisting the truth to blame a grown-up, like a babysitter, can get them in trouble at work. Who acts: Twisting. 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/18/) [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/) / 18 # When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 18 Twisting the truth to blame a grown-up, like a babysitter, can get them in trouble at work. **Who acts:** Twisting · **What happens:** twist, blame, get · **To what, where:** truth, grown, children, trouble 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 (Twisting), 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:18 # text = Twisting the truth to blame a grown-up, like a babysitter, can get them in trouble at work. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Twisting twist VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 7 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 babysitter babysitter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twist** | gerund | | the truth | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | | 2 | **blame** | to-infinitive | | grown | | | | like a babysitter | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grow=Theme | | 3 | **get** | can | Twisting | children *= child* | | trouble at work | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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: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, 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. 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