--- title: Saying «someone stole it» when nobody did makes innocent classmates… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Saying «someone stole it» when nobody did makes innocent classmates look suspicious. Who acts: someone, nobody, Saying, innocent classmates. A sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/28/) [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/) / [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/) / 28 # «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 28 Saying «someone stole it» when nobody did makes innocent classmates look suspicious. **Who acts:** someone, nobody, Saying, innocent classmates · **What happens:** say, steal, do, make, look · **To what, where:** problem, innocent classmates · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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 (someone, nobody, Saying, innocent classmates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:28 # text = Saying «someone stole it» when nobody did makes innocent classmates look suspicious. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.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 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 nsubj _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 10 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 classmates classmate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 xcomp _ _ 14 suspicious suspicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **steal** *in a quote* | past | someone | problem | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 3 | **do** | past | nobody | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | Saying | innocent classmates | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | present | innocent classmates *not said here* | | | | | suspicious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:28`. **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. **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: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/27/) - next →: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/)