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title: Confession brings forgiveness and real relief, but it works only whe… — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics
description: Confession brings forgiveness and real relief, but it works only when you are honest, and it does not replace putting it right with the people you wronged. Who acts: Confession, you. A sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 18

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Confession brings forgiveness and real relief, but it works only when you are honest, and it does not replace putting it right with the people you wronged.

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**Who acts:** Confession, you · **What happens:** bring, work, be, not replace, put, wrong · **To what, where:** forgiveness, confession, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:18
# text = Confession brings forgiveness and real relief, but it works only when you are honest, and it does not replace putting it right with the people you wronged.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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): no change
1	Confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	right	right	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wronged	wrong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **bring** | present | Confession | forgiveness and real relief |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | present | confession |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **replace** | present · do-support | confession |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | gerund | confession *not said here* | confession |  |  |  | with the people; right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 6 | **wrong** | past | you | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): no change. **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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