Owning up when it is hard, sentence 4
Owning up fast matters most when someone could be hurt, like a missing guinea pig: then it is about safety as well as honesty.
Who acts: Owning, courage · What happens: own up, matter, hurt, be · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» 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, courage), 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 | 4 matters | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Owning | compound:prt |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 1 Owning | advmod |
| 4 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 hurt | advmod |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurt | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hurt | aux:pass |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 matters | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pig | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 pig | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pig | det |
| 14 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pig | amod |
| 15 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pig | compound |
| 16 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurt | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 pig | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 safety | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 safety | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 safety | cop |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 safety | case |
| 22 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matters | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 honesty | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 26 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 safety | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 matters | 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 | fast property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | matter | present | Owning | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hurt | could · passive | someone | like a missing guinea pig | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | courage | then | about safety as honesty | tree rules |
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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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