--- title: In confession, a Catholic or Anglican tells their sins to a priest,… — Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry · tree and pragmatics description: In confession, a Catholic or Anglican tells their sins to a priest, who gives God's forgiveness (absolution) and often a small penance. Who acts: Catholic, priest. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catholic, priest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:15 # text = In confession, a Catholic or Anglican tells their sins to a priest, who gives God's forgiveness (absolution) and often a small penance. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Catholic catholic NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Anglican Anglican PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 forgiveness forgiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 absolution absolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 penance penance NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a Catholic or Anglican | Catholic's sins | a priest | confession | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sin=Topic to priest=Recipient | | 2 | **give** | present | a priest | God's forgiveness and a small penance | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=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](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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:15`. **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): 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. 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