--- title: Owning up early, even with a shaky voice ("I was too scared", "I was… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Owning up early, even with a shaky voice ("I was too scared", "I was being lazy"), is braver than an invented excuse, and it usually makes the weight lighter. Who acts: Guilt, arm. A sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» of the reflection course of Mova's prima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/) / 4 # When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 4 Owning up early, even with a shaky voice ("I was too scared", "I was being lazy"), is braver than an invented excuse, and it usually makes the weight lighter. **Who acts:** Guilt, arm · **What happens:** own up, be, invent, make · **To what, where:** weight · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Guilt, arm), 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:4 # text = Owning up early, even with a shaky voice ("I was too scared", "I was being lazy"), is braver than an invented excuse, and it usually makes the weight lighter. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Owning own VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 5 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 shaky shaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:cop 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 22 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 braver brave ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 conj _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 usually usually ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 lighter lighter ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | with a shaky voice; early *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Guilt | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Guilt | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | than a invented excuse; brave *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **invent** | participle | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | present | arm | the weight | | | | lighter, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material weight=Product | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/3/) - next →: [When it was my fault: owning up and ma…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/5-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right/5/) - ↑ 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/)