--- title: Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a pet or a baby, is extra… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics description: Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a pet or a baby, is extra unfair; a "scapegoat" is someone blamed for other people's mistakes. Who acts: Blaming, scapegoat, other people. A sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/15/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/) / 15 # Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 15 Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a pet or a baby, is extra unfair; a "scapegoat" is someone blamed for other people's mistakes. **Who acts:** Blaming, scapegoat, other people · **What happens:** blame, not speak up, be, mistake · **To what, where:** someone This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection 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, scapegoat, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:15 # text = Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a pet or a baby, is extra unfair; a "scapegoat" is someone blamed for other people's mistakes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 extra extra ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 18 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 scapegoat scapegoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 26 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 2 | **not** **speak up** *speech: other* | can | | | | | | like a pet or a baby | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Blaming | | | | | extra, unfair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a scapegoat | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **blame** | participle | | | | | | for other people's mistakes | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for mistake=Attribute | | 6 | **mistake** | | other people | | | | | | nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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