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title: In confession a person tells their sins honestly to a priest, who gi… — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics
description: In confession a person tells their sins honestly to a priest, who gives absolution and usually a small penance, like a prayer. Who acts: person, priest. A sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 20

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In confession a person tells their sins honestly to a priest, who gives absolution and usually a small penance, like a prayer.

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**Who acts:** person, priest · **What happens:** tell, give · **To what, where:** sins, priest, confession, absolution · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (person, priest), 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:20
# text = In confession a person tells their sins honestly to a priest, who gives absolution and usually a small penance, like a prayer.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	absolution	absolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	penance	penance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a person | people's sins | a priest | confession |  | honestly *property* | 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 | absolution and a small penance like a prayer |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absolution=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×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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