--- title: Each slip back needs the same honest steps — own up, say sorry, put… — Snooping on phones, diaries and letters · tree and pragmatics description: Each slip back needs the same honest steps — own up, say sorry, put it right — and a plan to make the next slip less likely. Who acts: slip, same honest steps. 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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 (slip, same honest steps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:16 # text = Each slip back needs the same honest steps — own up, say sorry, put it right — and a plan to make the next slip less likely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 — - PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 own own VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 14 sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 29 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | each slip | the same honest steps and a plan | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot step=Theme | | 2 | **own up** | present | the same honest steps and a plan *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the same honest steps and a plan *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | the same honest steps and a plan *not said here* | slip | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | each slip *not said here* | the next slip | | | | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slip=Product | 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:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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