--- title: Letting someone take your blame feels bad, and owning up usually fee… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics description: Letting someone take your blame feels bad, and owning up usually feels better. Who acts: someone, Letting, owning, your. A sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/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/) / [The favourite, the black sheep, coveri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/) / 36 # The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 36 Letting someone take your blame feels bad, and owning up usually feels better. **Who acts:** someone, Letting, owning, your · **What happens:** let, take, feel, own up, blame · **To what, where:** someone, blame This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (someone, Letting, owning, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:36 # text = Letting someone take your blame feels bad, and owning up usually feels better. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | gerund | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | your blame | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | present | Letting | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **feel** | present | owning | | | | | good, usually *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **blame** | | your | | | | | | nom blame «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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