--- title: Guilt is useful when it tells you to care more next time, and useles… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Guilt is useful when it tells you to care more next time, and useless when it just tells you to hate yourself every night; helping his sister while her arm healed did more for both of them than lying awake. Who acts: Guilt, helping. 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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 (Guilt, helping), 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:3 # text = Guilt is useful when it tells you to care more next time, and useless when it just tells you to hate yourself every night; helping his sister while her arm healed did more for both of them than lying awake. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Guilt guilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 11 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 hate hate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obj _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 csubj _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 healed heal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 obj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 35 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ _ 40 than than SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 42 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present | Guilt | | | | | useful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Guilt | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **care** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Guilt *not said here* | | | | time | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **be** | | Guilt *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Guilt | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **hate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Guilt *not said here* | yourself | | | night | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | | 7 | **help** | gerund | | | Noah's sister | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Beneficiary | | 8 | **heal** | past · passive | | year old's arm | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 9 | **do** | past | helping | more | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | | 10 | **lie** | gerund | helping *not said here* | | | | | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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. **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: [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/2/) - next →: [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/4/) - ↑ 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/)