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title: When everyone blames one thing, like sugar, it is worth checking whe… — Growing, skin, hair and food · tree and pragmatics
description: When everyone blames one thing, like sugar, it is worth checking whether something else, like a party, happens at the same time. Who acts: everyone, checking, something. A sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 16

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When everyone blames one thing, like sugar, it is worth checking whether something else, like a party, happens at the same time.

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**Who acts:** everyone, checking, something · **What happens:** blame, be, check, happen · **To what, where:** one thing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths 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 (everyone, checking, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:16
# text = When everyone blames one thing, like sugar, it is worth checking whether something else, like a party, happens at the same time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.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 ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blames	blame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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** | present | everyone | one thing and sugar |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | checking |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **happen** | present | something |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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