--- title: Owning up means saying honestly what your part was; it is usually br… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Owning up means saying honestly what your part was; it is usually braver and works out better than inventing an excuse. Who acts: Owning, part. 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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 (Owning, part), 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:5 # text = Owning up means saying honestly what your part was; it is usually braver and works out better than inventing an excuse. # 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 ×4 1 Owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 ccomp _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 usually usually ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 braver brave ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 19 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 inventing invent VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . 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 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **mean** | present | Owning | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | Owning *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | your part | | | | | honestly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | part | | | | | brave, usually *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **work out** | present | part *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **invent** | gerund | | a excuse | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Result | 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:5`. **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 ×4. **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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