Forgiving, sentence 45
Owning up late is better than never owning up; making things right helps forgiveness.
Who acts: Owning, making · What happens: own up, be, not own up, make, help · To what, where: things, forgiveness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (Owning, making), 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 | Owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 better | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Owning | compound:prt |
| 3 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Owning | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 owning | mark |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 owning | advmod |
| 8 | owning | own | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 better | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 owning | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 helps | csubj |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 making | obj |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 making | xcomp |
| 14 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | parataxis |
| 15 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 helps | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | gerund | late property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Owning | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not own up | gerund | Owning not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | things | right property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | ||||
| 5 | help | present | making | forgiveness | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Beneficiary |
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:454-forgiving.lesson:45.
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 ×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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