--- title: Letting someone else take your blame is cowardly, and buying it with… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: Letting someone else take your blame is cowardly, and buying it with a promise you break is a second lie. Who acts: someone, Letting, you, buying. 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 pr --- [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/35/) [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/) / 35 # «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 35 Letting someone else take your blame is cowardly, and buying it with a promise you break is a second lie. **Who acts:** someone, Letting, you, buying, your · **What happens:** let, take, be, buy, break, blame · **To what, where:** blame, promise, second lie 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 (someone, Letting, you, buying), 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:35 # text = Letting someone else take your blame is cowardly, and buying it with a promise you break is a second lie. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 else else ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 cowardly cowardly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 11 buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 amod _ _ 21 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | someone | your blame | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Letting | | | | | cowardly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **buy** | gerund | | blame | | | | with a promise | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **break** | present | you | a promise *not said here* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | buying | a second lie | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **blame** | | your | | | | | | nom blame «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:35`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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