--- title: Sometimes the bad thing really was partly your fault, and the honest… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes the bad thing really was partly your fault, and the honest job is to own your part without drowning in it: not "it's nothing to do with me" and not "I'm a horrible person", but "I did this, and here is how I'll put it right". Who acts: bad thing, honest job, thing, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bad thing, honest job, thing, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:0 # text = Sometimes the bad thing really was partly your fault, and the honest job is to own your part without drowning in it: not "it's nothing to do with me" and not "I'm a horrible person", but "I did this, and here is how I'll put it right". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 partly partly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 own own VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 without without SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 drowning drown VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 appos _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 39 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 45 but but CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 advcl _ _ 49 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 obj _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:advmod 53 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 54 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 57 advmod _ _ 55 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 56 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ _ 58 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 59 right right ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=57:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 60 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the bad thing | your fault | | | | partly, sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the honest job | | | | | own *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **drown** | gerund | the honest job *not said here* | | | job | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | thing | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the bad thing *not said here* | | | | | with me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | a horrible person | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | past | I | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | put, right *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:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Letting a friend down: broken promises…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/4-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets/17/) - next →: [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/)