--- title: Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a two-year-old, is unfair;… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics description: Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a two-year-old, is unfair; owning up and helping fix it ends the guilt. Who acts: Blaming, 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 (Blaming, owning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:19 # text = Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a two-year-old, is unfair; owning up and helping fix it ends the guilt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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 ×1 1 Blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advcl 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 , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 owning own VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 csubj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 24 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 guilt guilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | gerund | | someone | | | | like a year old | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 2 | **not** **speak up** *speech: other* | can | | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Blaming | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **help** | gerund | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **fix** | infinitive | | up | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **end** | present | owning | the guilt | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality guilt=Eventuality | 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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:19`. **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 ×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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