--- title: Taking the blame for something you didn't do is still a lie, and it… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics description: Taking the blame for something you didn't do is still a lie, and it makes it harder for parents to be fair. Who acts: you, Taking, blame, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/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/) / [Siblings as best mates and as rivals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/) / 36 # Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 36 Taking the blame for something you didn't do is still a lie, and it makes it harder for parents to be fair. **Who acts:** you, Taking, blame, parents · **What happens:** take, not do, be, make · **To what, where:** blame, lie This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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, Taking, blame, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:36 # text = Taking the blame for something you didn't do is still a lie, and it makes it harder for parents to be fair. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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 Taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 19 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | the blame | | | | for something | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blame=Theme for something=Beneficiary | | 2 | **not** **do** | past · do-support | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Taking | a lie | | | still | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | blame | lie | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | parents | | | | | fair *property* | 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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Siblings as best mates and as rivals, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/35/) - next →: [Siblings as best mates and as rivals, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/)