--- title: «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The biscuit tin in Derby was empty. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/) [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/) / «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each o… # «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other Lesson 432 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 37 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/0/) — The biscuit tin in Derby was empty. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/1/) — «It was HIM!» said Lily. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/2/) — «It was HER!» said Jack. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/3/) — Both had chocolate on their faces. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/4/) — «You're both mardy and both guilty,» said Mum — «mardy» is Midlands for grumpy and sulky. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/5/) — No pudding for either, and both were sent to wash their faces, which made everyone laugh. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/6/) — When everyone is guilty, the first to own up gets the best deal. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/7/) — Brothers and sisters blame each other all the time, and the evidence usually says who did it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/8/) — Aisha drew on the wall and wrote «OMAR IS STINKY» next to it, to make it look like her brother's work — but Omar would never write that. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/11/) — The worst sibling lies get someone punished for nothing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/12/) — Josh in Pittsburgh told Mom his brother had called him a bad name, so his brother would lose phone time and Josh would get the TV. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/13/) — Dad had been in the next room: «Nobody said nothin'.» Josh lost the TV for the day. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/14/) — Leo broke his little sister's Lego castle and told six-year-old Eve she'd done it in her sleep; she believed him for a whole day. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/15/) — Tricking someone smaller is easy — that is exactly why it is unfair. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/16/) — He spent all Saturday rebuilding it with her. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/17/) — Some deals go wrong. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/18/) — Ruby in Edinburgh cried until her big brother Euan agreed to take the blame for a cup, and promised to do his chores for a week. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/19/) — She did them for one day. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/20/) — Euan told Mum on day two, and Ruby was in trouble for the cup AND the broken deal. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/21/) — Twins Mia and Maya in Toronto swapped hoodies to confuse the teacher. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/23/) — Problem solved.» They didn't do it again. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/24/) — Honesty can even make it cheaper. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/25/) — Two brothers in Melbourne broke a vase wrestling. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/27/) — «But I pushed harder,» said the older. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/28/) — Mum let them each pay a bit less. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/29/) — And Noah's little sister said «Noah hit me!» every day when he hadn't — so the one day he really pushed her, Mum didn't believe her, until Noah admitted the push himself. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/30/) — That is the boy who cried wolf, at home. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/31/) — When siblings blame each other, clues like chocolate on faces, handwriting or screen-time records usually show the truth. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/32/) — When everyone is guilty, the first to own up usually gets the best deal. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/33/) — Getting a brother or sister punished for something they didn't do is one of the worst lies, because the unfair punishment is on you. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/34/) — Tricking a younger sibling is easy, which is exactly why it is unfair; big kids should protect little ones. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/35/) — Letting someone else take your blame is cowardly, and buying it with a promise you break is a second lie. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/36/) — Tricks that confuse grown-ups about who did it often end with everyone sharing the punishment. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/37/) — Exaggerating, like saying «for ages» when it was a short time, is still lying. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/38/) — If you borrow something and damage it, saying so at once is easier to forgive than hiding it. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/39/) — When both are to blame, telling the real story is fairer and often cheaper. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/41/) — «Mardy» (Midlands and North England) means grumpy and sulky; «youse» (Australia, Ireland) means «you lot»; «righto» means «all right». - ← previous: [When the story falls apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/) - next →: [Big kids, little kids and the truth at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)