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title: Owning up means admitting when you have done something wrong; it bui… — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics
description: Owning up means admitting when you have done something wrong; it builds trust. Who acts: Owning, you, Responsibility. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 9

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Owning up means admitting when you have done something wrong; it builds trust.

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**Who acts:** Owning, you, Responsibility · **What happens:** own up, mean, admit, do, build · **To what, where:** something, trust · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» of the religion ethics 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 (Owning, you, Responsibility), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.lesson:9
# text = Owning up means admitting when you have done something wrong; it builds trust.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.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 ×2
1	Owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	admitting	admit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | 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 | **admit** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | Owning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | present · perfect | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 5 | **build** | present | Responsibility | trust |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material trust=Product |

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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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**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 ×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.

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