--- title: Freya said she had said her prayers when she hadn't; when Mum asked… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics description: Freya said she had said her prayers when she hadn't; when Mum asked what she had prayed for, she could not answer and owned up. Who acts: Freya, Mum. 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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 (Freya, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:13 # text = Freya said she had said her prayers when she hadn't; when Mum asked what she had prayed for, she could not answer and owned up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Freya Freya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 obj _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 prayed pray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 19 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 27 owned own VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Freya | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Freya | Freya's prayers | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Mum | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pray** | past · perfect | Mum | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | could | Mum | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **own up** | past | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **pray** | | Freya | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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