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A sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/89-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book/0/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Owning up: the broken vase and the los…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/89-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book/) / 0 # Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 0 Owning up means saying "It was me" about something you did wrong, before someone else gets the blame or the problem grows. **Who acts:** Owning, It, you, someone, problem · **What happens:** own up, mean, say, be, do, get · **To what, where:** me, blame · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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, It, you, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:0 # text = Owning up means saying "It was me" about something you did wrong, before someone else gets the blame or the problem grows. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 ccomp _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 ccomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obl _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 18 else else ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 . . 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* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | It | me | | | | about something | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | past | you | | | | | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get** | present | someone | the blame | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blame=Stimulus | | 7 | **grow** | present | the problem | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, 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. 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