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title: The punishment for an excuse is often bigger than for the missing ho… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics
description: The punishment for an excuse is often bigger than for the missing homework: the lie gets its own consequence. Who acts: punishment, lie. 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 of ev
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# «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 30

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The punishment for an excuse is often bigger than for the missing homework: the lie gets its own consequence.

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**Who acts:** punishment, lie · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** own consequence

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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 (punishment, lie), 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:30
# text = The punishment for an excuse is often bigger than for the missing homework: the lie gets its own consequence.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the punishment for a excuse |  |  |  |  | than the missing homework; big, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | the lie | lie's own consequence |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consequence=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:30`.

**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/).

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