Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 9
When Archie blamed the teacher for a bad mark, Mum looked at his rushed book; he had to redo the work, and only when he said «I didn't try» could he ask for the help he needed.
Who acts: Archie, Mum · What happens: blame, look, rush, have, redo, say · To what, where: teacher, work, help · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Archie, Mum), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 blamed | mark |
| 2 | Archie | Archie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 blamed | nsubj |
| 3 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blamed | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 mark | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mark | det |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mark | amod |
| 9 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blamed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blamed | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 book | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 book | nmod:poss |
| 15 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 book | amod |
| 16 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 blamed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 redo | mark |
| 21 | redo | redo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 work | det |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 redo | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ask | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 ask | cc |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 when | advmod |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 said | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 ask | advcl |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 try | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 try | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 try | aux |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 try | advmod |
| 34 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 try | punct |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 ask | aux |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 ask | nsubj |
| 38 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | conj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 help | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 help | det |
| 41 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ask | obl |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 needed | nsubj |
| 43 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 help | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | past | Archie | the teacher | for a bad mark | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme for mark=Attribute | |||
| 2 | look | past | Mum | at Archie's rushed book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | Archie | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | redo | to-infinitive | Archie not said here | the work | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Archie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not try in a quote | past · do-support | Archie | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask | could | Archie | for the help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | need | past | Archie | the help not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
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:9.
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): R8-pos-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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