--- title: Forgiving means choosing not to keep punishing someone; it does not… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics description: Forgiving means choosing not to keep punishing someone; it does not mean saying what they did was okay. Who acts: means, truth. 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/40/) [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/) / 40 # Forgiving, sentence 40 Forgiving means choosing not to keep punishing someone; it does not mean saying what they did was okay. **Who acts:** means, truth · **What happens:** forgive, choose, not keep, punish, not mean, say · **To what, where:** means, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (means, truth), 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:40 # text = Forgiving means choosing not to keep punishing someone; it does not mean saying what they did was okay. # 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): no change 1 Forgiving forgive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 1 obj _ _ 3 choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 punishing punish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 csubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forgive** | gerund | | means | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent means=Theme | | 2 | **choose** | gerund | means *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **keep** | to-infinitive | means *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **punish** | gerund | means *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | | 5 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | truth | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | truth *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **do** | past | means | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 8 | **is** | past | | | | | | okay *property* | tree rules | 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:40`. **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/). - ← previous: [Forgiving, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/39/) - next →: [Forgiving, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/41/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/)