Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 12
Animals and machines can't argue back, so blaming them is still lying.
Who acts: Animals, blaming · What happens: not argue back, blame, lie · To what, where: Animals
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 (Animals, blaming), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 argue | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 machines | cc |
| 3 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Animals | conj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 argue | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 argue | advmod |
| 6 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 argue | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 argue | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 lying | advmod |
| 10 | blaming | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 lying | csubj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blaming | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lying | aux |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 lying | advmod |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Part | 6 argue | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not argue back speech: disagree | can | Animals and machines | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | blame | gerund | Animals = animal | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | present · progressive | blaming | still | vn assuming_position-50 «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, 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:12.
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 ×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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