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title: Confession at church can lift the weight of guilt, but it does not r… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Confession at church can lift the weight of guilt, but it does not replace saying sorry to the person you wronged. Who acts: Confession, you. A sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Little lies at home, sentence 22

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Confession at church can lift the weight of guilt, but it does not replace saying sorry to the person you wronged.

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**Who acts:** Confession, you · **What happens:** lift, not replace, say, wrong · **To what, where:** weight, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» 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 (Confession, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:22
# text = Confession at church can lift the weight of guilt, but it does not replace saying sorry to the person you wronged.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 336-little-lies-at-home.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2
1	Confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj
17	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wronged	wrong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | can | Confession at church | the weight of guilt |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **replace** | present · do-support | confession |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: apologize* | gerund | confession *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wrong** | past | you | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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 ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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