--- title: Tricks that confuse grown-ups about who did it often end with everyo… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: Tricks that confuse grown-ups about who did it often end with everyone sharing the punishment. Who acts: Tricks, grown ups. 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 claus --- [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/36/) [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/) / 36 # «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 36 Tricks that confuse grown-ups about who did it often end with everyone sharing the punishment. **Who acts:** Tricks, grown ups · **What happens:** confuse, do, end, share · **To what, where:** grown ups, blame, punishment 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 (Tricks, grown ups), 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:36 # text = Tricks that confuse grown-ups about who did it often end with everyone sharing the punishment. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:root 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 confuse confuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 about about SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 obl _ _ 15 sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confuse** | present | Tricks | grown ups | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Patient | | 2 | **do** | past | grown ups | blame | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **end** | present | Tricks | | | | | with everyone; often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with everyone=Subeventuality | | 4 | **share** | gerund | | the punishment | | | | | 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:36`. **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): 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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