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title: Blaming others for your mistake is unfair, and people stop trusting… — Mistakes, asking for help and saying no · tree and pragmatics
description: Blaming others for your mistake is unfair, and people stop trusting you. Who acts: Blaming, people, your. A sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 7

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Blaming others for your mistake is unfair, and people stop trusting you.

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**Who acts:** Blaming, people, your · **What happens:** blame, be, stop, trust, mistake · **To what, where:** others, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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 (Blaming, people, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:7
# text = Blaming others for your mistake is unfair, and people stop trusting you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.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	Blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **blame** | gerund |  | others |  |  |  | for your mistake | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme for mistake=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | Blaming |  |  |  |  | unfair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **trust** | gerund | people *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **mistake** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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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