Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 36
Taking the blame for something you didn't do is still a lie, and it makes it harder for parents to be fair.
Who acts: you, Taking, blame, parents · What happens: take, not do, be, make · To what, where: blame, lie
This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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, Taking, blame, parents), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 lie | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blame | det |
| 3 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 something | case |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Taking | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lie | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 lie | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lie | det |
| 13 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 makes | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lie | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 makes | expl |
| 19 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 fair | mark |
| 21 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fair | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fair | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fair | cop |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 harder | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the blame | for something | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blame=Theme for something=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | not do | past · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Taking | a lie | still | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | present | blame | lie | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | |||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | parents | fair property | 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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:36.
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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