--- title: It does not make a person perfect, and it never replaces saying sorr… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics description: It does not make a person perfect, and it never replaces saying sorry and making amends — sometimes with words, sometimes with work. Who acts: confession. 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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 (confession), 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:18 # text = It does not make a person perfect, and it never replaces saying sorry and making amends — sometimes with words, sometimes with work. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 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 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 replaces replace VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 14 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 17 amends amends NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 19 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 16 advmod _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | confession | a person | | | | perfect *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material person=Product | | 2 | **not** **replace** | present | confession | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: apologize* | gerund | confession *not said here* | | | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | gerund | confession *not said here* | amends | | | | with words with work; sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amends=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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:18`. **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. 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