Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 9
A lie that blames someone innocent can get them punished; being "framed" means being blamed for something you did not do, and "setting the record straight" means telling the truth afterwards.
Who acts: lie, people, you, setting, truth · What happens: blame, get, punish, frame, mean, not do · To what, where: someone, people, record · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lie, people, you, setting), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lie | det |
| 2 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 blames | nsubj |
| 4 | blames | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lie | acl:relcl |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 blames | obj |
| 6 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 someone | amod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 get | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 framed | aux:pass |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 framed | punct |
| 14 | framed | frame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 means | csubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 framed | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | parataxis |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 blamed | aux:pass |
| 18 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 means | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 something | case |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 blamed | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 do | advmod |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 something | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 means | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 means | cc |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 setting | punct |
| 28 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 means | csubj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 record | det |
| 30 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 setting | obj |
| 31 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 28 setting | advmod |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 setting | punct |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | conj |
| 34 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 means | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 truth | det |
| 36 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 telling | obj |
| 37 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 34 telling | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | present | a lie | someone | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | can | a lie | people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | punish | participle | people not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | frame in a quote | gerund · passive | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | ||||||
| 5 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | blame | gerund · passive | for something | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for something=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | not do | past · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | set in a quote | gerund | the record | straight property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient record=Result | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | setting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | gerund | the truth | afterwards property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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