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title: Shame can turn into making things right: Finn told his mum, knocked… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shame can turn into making things right: Finn told his mum, knocked on the man's door with her, said sorry and helped pay for the glass, and the man shook his hand; "everyone did it" never made the clip stop, but owning up slowly did. Who acts: Shame, Finn, man, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «T
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# Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 5

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Shame can turn into making things right: Finn told his mum, knocked on the man's door with her, said sorry and helped pay for the glass, and the man shook his hand; "everyone did it" never made the clip stop, but owning up slowly did.

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**Who acts:** Shame, Finn, man, everyone · **What happens:** turn, make, tell, knock, say, help · **To what, where:** things, mum, door, hand, clip stop · **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 (Shame, Finn, man, everyone), 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:5
# text = Shame can turn into making things right: Finn told his mum, knocked on the man's door with her, said sorry and helped pay for the glass, and the man shook his hand; "everyone did it" never made the clip stop, but owning up slowly did.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
40	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	41	nsubj	_	_
41	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	csubj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
44	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	owning	own	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:advcl
52	up	up	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
53	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
54	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **turn** | can | Shame |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Shame *not said here* | things |  |  |  | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Finn |  | Finn's mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 4 | **knock** | past | Finn *not said here* |  |  | the man's door |  | with person | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Finn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **help** | past | Finn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **pay** | infinitive | Finn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the glass | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for glass=Theme |
| 8 | **shake** | past | the man | Finn's hand |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 9 | **do** *in a quote* | past | everyone | hand |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 10 | **not** **make** | past |  | the clip stop |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stop=Product |
| 11 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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