Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 15
Who pays for damage should depend on who did it, not on who can afford it.
What happens: pay, depend, not afford · To what, where: damage
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 pays | nsubj |
| 2 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 depend | csubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 damage | case |
| 4 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pays | obl |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 depend | aux |
| 6 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 did | mark |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 depend | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afford | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 afford | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 afford | mark |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 afford | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 afford | aux |
| 16 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 depend | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 afford | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 depend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | for damage | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for damage=Theme | |||||
| 2 | depend | should | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not afford | can | damage | 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, 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:15.
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): no change. 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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