Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 11
New children and little children are easy to blame because they can't defend themselves well, which makes it crueller.
Who acts: New children, children · What happens: be, blame, not defend, make · To what, where: children, work
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting the blame on someone else» 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 (New children, children), 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 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 children | cc |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 children | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 easy | cop |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 blame | mark |
| 9 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easy | xcomp |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 defend | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 defend | nsubj |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 defend | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 defend | advmod |
| 14 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 blame | ccomp |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 defend | obj |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | _ | 14 defend | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 easy | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 makes | obj |
| 21 | crueller | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | New children and little children | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blame | to-infinitive | New children and little children not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not defend | can | children = child | children = child | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | make | present | work | cruel property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:11.
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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