Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 14
Blaming others for your bad mark stops you seeing what you need to fix.
Who acts: Blaming, you, your · What happens: blame, stop, see, need, fix, mark · To what, where: others, you
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 (Blaming, you, your), 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 | 7 stops | csubj |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Blaming | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 mark | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mark | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mark | amod |
| 6 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blaming | obl |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 stops | obj |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stops | xcomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 seeing | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 need | nsubj |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fix | mark |
| 14 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 need | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | gerund | others | for your bad mark | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme for mark=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | Blaming | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | Blaming not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fix not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | mark | your | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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:14.
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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