--- title: Getting a brother or sister punished for something they didn't do is… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: Getting a brother or sister punished for something they didn't do is one of the worst lies, because the unfair punishment is on you. Who acts: Brothers, Getting, unfair punishment. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, Getting, unfair punishment), 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:33 # text = Getting a brother or sister punished for something they didn't do is one of the worst lies, because the unfair punishment is on you. # 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 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | a brother or sister | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | | 2 | **punish** | participle | | sister *not said here* | | | | for something | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | | 3 | **not** **do** | past · do-support | Brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | Getting | one | | | | of the worst lies | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | the unfair punishment | | | | | on you | tree rules | 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:33`. **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/). - ← previous: [«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each o…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/32/) - next →: [«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each o…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/)