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title: When everyone is guilty, the first to own up usually gets the best d… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics
description: When everyone is guilty, the first to own up usually gets the best deal. Who acts: everyone, first. 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 32

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When everyone is guilty, the first to own up usually gets the best deal.

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**Who acts:** everyone, first · **What happens:** be, own up, get · **To what, where:** best deal

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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 (everyone, first), 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:32
# text = When everyone is guilty, the first to own up usually gets the best deal.
# 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	_	4	mark	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **own up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **get** | present | the first | the best deal |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus |

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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:32`.

**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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