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title: «It's not my fault, ye know,» says Ruaridh, feeling guilty for being… — Twins and big families · tree and pragmatics
description: «It's not my fault, ye know,» says Ruaridh, feeling guilty for being happy. Who acts: home, ye, Ruaridh. A sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Twins and big families, sentence 11

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«It's not my fault, ye know,» says Ruaridh, feeling guilty for being happy.

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**Who acts:** home, ye, Ruaridh · **What happens:** not be, know, say, feel, be · **To what, where:** fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» 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 (home, ye, Ruaridh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:11
# text = «It's not my fault, ye know,» says Ruaridh, feeling guilty for being happy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 503-twins-and-big-families.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 ×3
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Ruaridh	Ruaridh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
16	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | home | my fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ruaridh |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund | Ruaridh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | Ruaridh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | 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:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:11`.

**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 ×3. **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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