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title: "Coming clean" or "owning up" means admitting what you did; "making… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Coming clean" or "owning up" means admitting what you did; "making amends" means doing something to fix the harm. Who acts: Coming, you, making. A sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 16

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"Coming clean" or "owning up" means admitting what you did; "making amends" means doing something to fix the harm.

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**Who acts:** Coming, you, making · **What happens:** come, own up, mean, admit, do, make · **To what, where:** amends, something, harm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection 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 (Coming, you, making), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:16
# text = "Coming clean" or "owning up" means admitting what you did; "making amends" means doing something to fix the harm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	admitting	admit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:ccomp
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
18	amends	amend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **own up** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Coming |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | Coming *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund |  | amends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amend=Product |
| 7 | **mean** | present | making |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | making *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 9 | **fix** | to-infinitive | making *not said here* | the harm |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent harm=Patient |

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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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**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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:16`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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