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title: The worst sibling lies get someone punished for nothing. — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics
description: The worst sibling lies get someone punished for nothing. Who acts: worst sibling lies. A sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 11

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The worst sibling lies get someone punished for nothing.

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**Who acts:** worst sibling lies · **What happens:** get, punish · **To what, where:** someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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 (worst sibling lies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:11
# text = The worst sibling lies get someone punished for nothing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the worst sibling lies | someone |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **punish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for nothing | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nothing=Theme |

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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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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