--- title: Being near a problem is not the same as causing it, and the person w… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics description: Being near a problem is not the same as causing it, and the person who reports a problem often deserves thanks; blaming someone for being near is guilt by association. Who acts: problem, person, blaming. 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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 (problem, person, blaming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:22 # text = Being near a problem is not the same as causing it, and the person who reports a problem often deserves thanks; blaming someone for being near is guilt by association. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 2 near near ADP IN _ 8 mark _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 causing cause VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 reports report VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 deserves deserve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 csubj _ _ 25 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obj _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 cop _ _ 28 near near ADV RB _ 25 nmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 guilt guilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 association association NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | gerund | a problem | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | gerund | a problem *not said here* | problem | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | | 3 | **report** | present | the person | a problem | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 4 | **deserve** | present | the person | thanks | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **blame** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 6 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | near *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | blaming | guilt | | | | by association | 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:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:22`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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