--- title: If you borrow something and damage it, saying so at once is easier t… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics description: If you borrow something and damage it, saying so at once is easier to forgive than hiding it. Who acts: you, saying. 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. --- [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/38/) [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/) / 38 # «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 38 If you borrow something and damage it, saying so at once is easier to forgive than hiding it. **Who acts:** you, saying · **What happens:** borrow, damage, say, be, forgive, hide · **To what, where:** something, blame · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, saying), 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:38 # text = If you borrow something and damage it, saying so at once is easier to forgive than hiding it. # 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 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 borrow borrow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 damage damage VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 once once ADV RB _ 14 obl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 forgive forgive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **borrow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | something | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 2 | **damage** | present | you *not said here* | blame | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | saying | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **forgive** | to-infinitive | saying *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hide** | gerund | saying *not said here* | blame | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:38`. **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. **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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