«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 38

If you borrow something and damage it, saying so at once is easier to forgive than hiding it.

Who acts: you, saying · What happens: borrow, damage, say, be, forgive, hide · To what, where: something, blame · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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 (you, saying), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 borrow	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 borrow	nsubj
3	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 easier	advcl
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 borrow	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 damage	cc
6	damage	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 borrow	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 damage	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 borrow	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 easier	csubj
10	so	so	ADV	_	9 saying	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	_	14 easier	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 easier	cop
14	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 forgive	mark
16	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 easier	xcomp
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 hiding	mark
18	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 easier	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hiding	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 easier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	borrow a condition, not said to happen	present	you	something		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	damage	present	you not said here	blame		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	saying		easy property	tree rules
5	forgive	to-infinitive	saying not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	hide	gerund	saying not said here	blame		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:38.

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. 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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