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title: Tricking someone smaller is easy — that is exactly why it is unfair. — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics
description: Tricking someone smaller is easy — that is exactly why it is unfair. Who acts: that, castle. 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 15

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Tricking someone smaller is easy — that is exactly why it is unfair.

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**Who acts:** that, castle · **What happens:** trick, be · **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 (that, castle), 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:15
# text = Tricking someone smaller is easy — that is exactly why it is unfair.
# 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): no change
1	Tricking	trick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | castle |  |  |  |  | unfair *property* | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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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