Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 15
Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a pet or a baby, is extra unfair; a "scapegoat" is someone blamed for other people's mistakes.
Who acts: Blaming, scapegoat, other people · What happens: blame, not speak up, be, mistake · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection 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 (Blaming, scapegoat, other people), 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 | Blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 unfair | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Blaming | obj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 speak | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 speak | advmod |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 someone | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 speak | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pet | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 pet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pet | det |
| 11 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speak | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 baby | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 baby | det |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pet | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Blaming | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 unfair | cop |
| 17 | extra | extra | ADV | _ | 18 unfair | advmod |
| 18 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 someone | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 scapegoat | det |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 scapegoat | punct |
| 22 | scapegoat | scapegoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 someone | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 scapegoat | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 someone | cop |
| 25 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 unfair | parataxis |
| 26 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 someone | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 mistakes | case |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 people | amod |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 mistakes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 people | case |
| 31 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 blamed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 unfair | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | gerund | someone | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not speak up speech: other | can | like a pet or a baby | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Blaming | extra, unfair property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a scapegoat | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | blame | participle | for other people's mistakes | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for mistake=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | mistake | other people | nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:15.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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