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title: When a reason is pushed onto someone else, ask yourself whether it's… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: When a reason is pushed onto someone else, ask yourself whether it's really theirs. Who acts: you, reason. A sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Too many details, too few, sentence 34

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When a reason is pushed onto someone else, ask yourself whether it's really theirs.

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**Who acts:** you, reason · **What happens:** push, ask, be · **To what, where:** reason, someone, yourself, names · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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, reason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:34
# text = When a reason is pushed onto someone else, ask yourself whether it's really theirs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 450-too-many-details-too-few.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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present · passive |  | a reason |  | someone |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme onto someone=Destination |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | reason | names *= name* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:450-too-many-details-too-few.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): 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/).

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