When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 4
Owning up early, even with a shaky voice ("I was too scared", "I was being lazy"), is braver than an invented excuse, and it usually makes the weight lighter.
Who acts: Guilt, arm · What happens: own up, be, invent, make · To what, where: weight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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 (Guilt, arm), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Owning | compound:prt |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Owning | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Owning | punct |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 voice | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 8 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voice | amod |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Owning | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 scared | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 scared | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 scared | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 scared | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 scared | advmod |
| 15 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voice | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 scared | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scared | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lazy | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 lazy | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lazy | aux |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 lazy | cop |
| 22 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scared | advcl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lazy | punct |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 scared | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 braver | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 braver | cop |
| 27 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Owning | conj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 excuse | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 excuse | det |
| 30 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 excuse | amod |
| 31 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 braver | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 makes | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 makes | cc |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 makes | nsubj |
| 35 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 36 makes | advmod |
| 36 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Owning | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 weight | det |
| 38 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 makes | obj |
| 39 | lighter | lighter | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 makes | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Owning | 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 | with a shaky voice; early property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Guilt | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past · progressive | Guilt | lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | than a invented excuse; brave property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | invent | participle | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | make | present | arm | the weight | lighter, usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material weight=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:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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