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title: Confession does not replace saying sorry and putting things right wi… — Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: Confession does not replace saying sorry and putting things right with the person you hurt. Who acts: Confession, you. A sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 17

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Confession does not replace saying sorry and putting things right with the person you hurt.

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**Who acts:** Confession, you · **What happens:** not replace, say, put, hurt · **To what, where:** sorry, things, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:17
# text = Confession does not replace saying sorry and putting things right with the person you hurt.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **replace** | present · do-support | Confession |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Confession *not said here* | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | Confession *not said here* | things |  |  |  | with the person; right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |
| 4 | **hurt** | past | you | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Patient |

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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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:17`.

**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/).

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