Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 16
Each slip back needs the same honest steps — own up, say sorry, put it right — and a plan to make the next slip less likely.
Who acts: slip, same honest steps · What happens: need, own up, say, put, make · To what, where: same honest steps, slip, next slip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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 (slip, same honest steps), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 slip | det |
| 2 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 needs | advmod |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steps | amod |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steps | amod |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 needs | obj |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 own | punct |
| 10 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 steps | acl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 own | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 own | conj |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 13 say | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 own | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 plan | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plan | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 plan | det |
| 22 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steps | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 plan | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 slip | det |
| 26 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 slip | amod |
| 27 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 28 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 likely | advmod |
| 29 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | each slip | the same honest steps and a plan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot step=Theme | ||||
| 2 | own up | present | the same honest steps and a plan not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the same honest steps and a plan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | the same honest steps and a plan not said here | slip | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | each slip not said here | the next slip | likely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slip=Product |
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:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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