Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 15

In confession, a Catholic or Anglican tells their sins to a priest, who gives God's forgiveness (absolution) and often a small penance.

Who acts: Catholic, priest · What happens: tell, give · To what, where: sins, priest, confession, forgiveness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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 (Catholic, priest), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 confession	case
2	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 confession	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Catholic	det
5	Catholic	catholic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 Anglican	cc
7	Anglican	Anglican	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Catholic	conj
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sins	nmod:poss
10	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tells	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 priest	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 priest	det
13	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gives	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 gives	nsubj
16	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 priest	acl:relcl
17	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 forgiveness	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 God	case
19	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gives	obj
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 absolution	punct
21	absolution	absolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forgiveness	appos
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 absolution	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 penance	cc
24	often	often	ADV	_	27 penance	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 penance	det
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 penance	amod
27	penance	penance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forgiveness	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a Catholic or Anglican	Catholic's sins	a priest	confession			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sin=Topic to priest=Recipient
2	give	present	a priest	God's forgiveness and a small penance					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Theme

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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.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): 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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