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title: Owning up late is better than never owning up; making things right h… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics
description: Owning up late is better than never owning up; making things right helps forgiveness. Who acts: Owning, making. 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.
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# Forgiving, sentence 45

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Owning up late is better than never owning up; making things right helps forgiveness.

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**Who acts:** Owning, making · **What happens:** own up, be, not own up, make, help · **To what, where:** things, forgiveness

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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 (Owning, making), 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:45
# text = Owning up late is better than never owning up; making things right helps forgiveness.
# 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	Owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	owning	own	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present | Owning |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **own up** | gerund | Owning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 5 | **help** | present | making | forgiveness |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Beneficiary |

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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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