--- title: Blaming a friend for something you did can break up a whole group of… — When someone else takes your punishment · tree and pragmatics description: Blaming a friend for something you did can break up a whole group of friends. Who acts: you, Blaming. 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/21/) [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/) / 21 # When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 21 Blaming a friend for something you did can break up a whole group of friends. **Who acts:** you, Blaming · **What happens:** blame, do, break up · **To what, where:** friend, whole group 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 (you, Blaming), 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:21 # text = Blaming a friend for something you did can break up a whole group of friends. # 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 Blaming blame VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | gerund | | a friend | | | | for something | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent friend=Theme for something=Attribute | | 2 | **do** | past | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **break up** | can | Blaming | a whole group of friends | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient | 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:21`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When someone else takes your punishment, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/20/) - next →: [When someone else takes your punishment, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment/)