Lies that do real harm, sentence 1
Blaming someone innocent, accusing without proof, or getting someone into trouble on purpose are among the worst, because an innocent person suffers.
Who acts: someone, innocent person · What happens: blame, accuse, get, be, suffer · To what, where: someone, trouble
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday 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 (someone, innocent person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Blaming | obj |
| 3 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 someone | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accusing | punct |
| 5 | accusing | accuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Blaming | conj |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 proof | case |
| 7 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accusing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 getting | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 getting | cc |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Blaming | conj |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 getting | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 purpose | case |
| 15 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | obl |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 worst | cop |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 worst | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 worst | det |
| 19 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 getting | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 suffers | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 suffers | mark |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 person | det |
| 23 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 person | amod |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suffers | nsubj |
| 25 | suffers | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Blaming | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Blaming | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | 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 | accuse | gerund | without proof | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | gerund | someone | trouble | on purpose | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent someone=Theme on purpose=Source | |||
| 4 | is | present | someone not said here | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | suffer | present | a innocent person | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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, 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:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:1.
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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