The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 36
Letting someone take your blame feels bad, and owning up usually feels better.
Who acts: someone, Letting, owning, your · What happens: let, take, feel, own up, blame · To what, where: someone, blame
This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (someone, Letting, owning, your), 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 | Letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 feels | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Letting | obj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Letting | xcomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 blame | nmod:poss |
| 5 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feels | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feels | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feels | cc |
| 10 | owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 feels | csubj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 owning | compound:prt |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 feels | advmod |
| 13 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feels | conj |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 feels | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | gerund | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | someone not said here | your blame | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | Letting | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | own up | gerund | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | feel | present | owning | good, usually property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | blame | your | nom blame «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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