--- title: Letting someone else take the blame for what you did is unfair to th… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics description: Letting someone else take the blame for what you did is unfair to them; owning up later is still brave. Who acts: someone, you, Letting, owning. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, you, Letting, owning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:10 # text = Letting someone else take the blame for what you did is unfair to them; owning up later is still brave. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 else else ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 obl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 16 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | 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* | the blame | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blame=Theme for what=Beneficiary | | 3 | **do** | past | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | Letting | | sign | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | late *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is** | present | owning | | | | still | brave *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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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