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title: Little children remember being left out; giving them time and attent… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little children remember being left out; giving them time and attention later is what makes it up to them. Who acts: Little children, giving. A sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 15

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Little children remember being left out; giving them time and attention later is what makes it up to them.

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**Who acts:** Little children, giving · **What happens:** remember, leave out, give, be, make up · **To what, where:** children, more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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 (Little children, giving), 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:15
# text = Little children remember being left out; giving them time and attention later is what makes it up to them.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **remember** | present | Little children |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave out** | gerund · passive | Little children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  |  | children *= child* |  | time | late *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | giving |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make up** | present |  | more | children *= child* |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=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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**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:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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