--- title: Dad had been in the next room: «Nobody said nothin'.» Josh lost the… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: Dad had been in the next room: «Nobody said nothin'.» Josh lost the TV for the day. Who acts: Dad, Nobody, Josh. 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. --- [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/13/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/) / 13 # «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 13 Dad had been in the next room: «Nobody said nothin'.» Josh lost the TV for the day. **Who acts:** Dad, Nobody, Josh · **What happens:** be, say, lose · **To what, where:** next room, nothin, TV · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Dad, Nobody, Josh), 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:13 # text = Dad had been in the next room: «Nobody said nothin'.» Josh lost the TV for the day. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 nothin nothin PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 16 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | Dad | | | the next room | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Nobody | nothin | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothin=Topic | | 3 | **lose** | past | Josh | the TV | | | day | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Eventuality | 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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:13`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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