Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 0

Owning up means saying "It was me" about something you did wrong, before someone else gets the blame or the problem grows.

Who acts: Owning, It, you, someone, problem · What happens: own up, mean, say, be, do, get · To what, where: me, blame · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» of the religion ethics 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, It, you, someone), 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	ccomp
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 me	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 me	cop
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 saying	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 something	case
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 me	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 something	acl:relcl
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 did	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gets	punct
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 gets	mark
17	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 gets	nsubj
18	else	else	ADV	_	17 someone	advmod
19	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 blame	det
21	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gets	obj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 grows	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 problem	det
24	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grows	nsubj
25	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gets	conj
26	.	.	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	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past	It	me	about something	tree rules
5	do	past	you		wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	present	someone	the blame		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blame=Stimulus
7	grow	present	the problem			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:0.

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 ×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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