--- title: Making amends can be work as well as money, like painting a porch yo… — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics description: Making amends can be work as well as money, like painting a porch you damaged. Who acts: Making, you. A sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Breaking things and hiding the pieces](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/) / 20 # Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 20 Making amends can be work as well as money, like painting a porch you damaged. **Who acts:** Making, you · **What happens:** make, be, paint, damage · **To what, where:** amends, work, porch This is a sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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 (Making, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:20 # text = Making amends can be work as well as money, like painting a porch you damaged. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.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 ×1 1 Making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 amends amend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 9 cc _ _ 7 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 painting paint VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 porch porch NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 damaged damage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | gerund | | amends | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amend=Product | | 2 | **is a** | can | Making | work as money | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **paint** | gerund | Making *not said here* | a porch | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent porch=Destination | | 4 | **damage** | past | you | a porch *not said here* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porch=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:20`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Breaking things and hiding the pieces, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/19/) - next →: [Breaking things and hiding the pieces, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/)