--- title: People who've done wrong can change; forgiving gives them the chance. — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics description: People who've done wrong can change; forgiving gives them the chance. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Forgiving](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/) / 24 # Forgiving, sentence 24 People who've done wrong can change; forgiving gives them the chance. **Who acts:** People · **What happens:** do, change, forgive, give · **To what, where:** chance, People This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:454-forgiving.lesson:24 # text = People who've done wrong can change; forgiving gives them the chance. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 454-forgiving.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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 forgiving forgive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 14 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present · perfect | People | | | | | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **change** | can | People | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **forgive** | gerund | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | present | | the chance | People | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chance=Theme | 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:454-forgiving.lesson:24`. **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/). - ← previous: [Forgiving, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/23/) - next →: [Forgiving, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/)