--- title: Tricking a younger sibling is easy, which is exactly why it is unfai… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: Tricking a younger sibling is easy, which is exactly why it is unfair; big kids should protect little ones. Who acts: Tricking, big kids. 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 --- [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/34/) [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/) / 34 # «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 34 Tricking a younger sibling is easy, which is exactly why it is unfair; big kids should protect little ones. **Who acts:** Tricking, big kids · **What happens:** trick, be, protect · **To what, where:** younger sibling, little ones 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 (Tricking, big kids), 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:34 # text = Tricking a younger sibling is easy, which is exactly why it is unfair; big kids should protect little ones. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tricking trick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 sibling sibling NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 10 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 11 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | gerund | | a younger sibling | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sibling=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Tricking | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **protect** | should | big kids | little ones | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary | 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:34`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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