When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 5

Owning up means saying honestly what your part was; it is usually braver and works out better than inventing an excuse.

Who acts: Owning, part · What happens: own up, mean, say, be, work out, invent · To what, where: excuse · 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 (Owning, part), 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	3 means	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Owning	compound:prt
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	xcomp
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saying	ccomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 part	nmod:poss
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 braver	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 braver	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 braver	cop
13	usually	usually	ADV	_	14 braver	advmod
14	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 means	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 works	cc
16	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 braver	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 works	compound:prt
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 works	xcomp
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 inventing	mark
20	inventing	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 better	acl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 excuse	det
22	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 inventing	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	own up	gerund				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	mean	present	Owning			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	Owning not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	your part		honestly property	tree rules
5	is	present	part		brave, usually property	tree rules
6	work out	present	part not said here		good property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	invent	gerund		a excuse		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Result

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:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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