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title: When siblings blame each other, clues like chocolate on faces, handw… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics
description: When siblings blame each other, clues like chocolate on faces, handwriting or screen-time records usually show the truth. Who acts: siblings, clues. 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 
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# «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 31

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When siblings blame each other, clues like chocolate on faces, handwriting or screen-time records usually show the truth.

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**Who acts:** siblings, clues · **What happens:** blame, show · **To what, where:** each, truth

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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 (siblings, clues), 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:31
# text = When siblings blame each other, clues like chocolate on faces, handwriting or screen-time records usually show the truth.
# 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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	siblings	sibling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blame	blame	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obj	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **blame** | present | siblings | each |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present | clues like chocolate on faces and handwriting or time records | the truth |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |

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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:31`.

**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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