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title: He went to confession again, and the priest said what Mum said: ever… — Breaking things and hiding the pieces · tree and pragmatics
description: He went to confession again, and the priest said what Mum said: everyone slips, forgiveness does not run out, but each time you must put it right. Who acts: street, priest, Mum, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 9

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He went to confession again, and the priest said what Mum said: everyone slips, forgiveness does not run out, but each time you must put it right.

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**Who acts:** street, priest, Mum, everyone, forgiveness, you · **What happens:** go, say, slip, not run out, put · **To what, where:** confession, forgiveness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (street, priest, Mum, everyone), 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:9
# text = He went to confession again, and the priest said what Mum said: everyone slips, forgiveness does not run out, but each time you must put it right.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
12	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
16	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	right	right	ADV	RB	_	29	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | street |  |  | confession | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to confession=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slip** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **not** **run out** | present · do-support | forgiveness |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | must | you | forgiveness |  |  | time |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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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**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:9`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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