--- title: Blaming a pet or a baby who cannot answer back is a cowardly lie and… — The broken window and other hidden accidents · tree and pragmatics description: Blaming a pet or a baby who cannot answer back is a cowardly lie and often fails. Who acts: baby, Blaming. A sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/30/) [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 broken window and other hidden acc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/) / 30 # The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 30 Blaming a pet or a baby who cannot answer back is a cowardly lie and often fails. **Who acts:** baby, Blaming · **What happens:** blame, not answer back, be, fail · **To what, where:** pet, cowardly lie This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (baby, Blaming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:30 # text = Blaming a pet or a baby who cannot answer back is a cowardly lie and often fails. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.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 Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 cowardly cowardly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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 pet or a baby | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | | 2 | **not** **answer back** *speech: assert* | can | a baby | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Blaming | a cowardly lie | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fail** | present | Blaming *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.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. 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