--- title: A lie that blames someone innocent can get them punished; being "fra… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics description: A lie that blames someone innocent can get them punished; being "framed" means being blamed for something you did not do, and "setting the record straight" means telling the truth afterwards. Who acts: lie, people, you, setting. 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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 (lie, people, you, setting), 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:9 # text = A lie that blames someone innocent can get them punished; being "framed" means being blamed for something you did not do, and "setting the record straight" means telling the truth afterwards. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 blames blame VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:parataxis 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 framed frame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 csubj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obl _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 setting set VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 csubj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 30 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound 31 straight straight ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 34 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:ccomp 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | present | a lie | someone | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 2 | **get** | can | a lie | people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **punish** | participle | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **frame** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **blame** | gerund · passive | | | | | | for something | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for something=Attribute | | 7 | **not** **do** | past · do-support | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **set** *in a quote* | gerund | | the record | | | | straight *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient record=Result | | 9 | **mean** | present | setting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | the truth | | | | | afterwards *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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