When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 18
Twisting the truth to blame a grown-up, like a babysitter, can get them in trouble at work.
Who acts: Twisting · What happens: twist, blame, get · To what, where: truth, grown, children, trouble
This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone else takes your punishment» 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 (Twisting), 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 | Twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 get | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twisting | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 blame | mark |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Twisting | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 up | det |
| 7 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grown | compound |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 babysitter | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 babysitter | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 babysitter | det |
| 13 | babysitter | babysitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grown | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twisting | punct |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 trouble | case |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 work | case |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trouble | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | gerund | the truth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blame | to-infinitive | grown | like a babysitter | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | can | Twisting | children = child | trouble at work | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:18.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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