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title: The law says to confess the wrong and make full restitution (pay bac… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics
description: The law says to confess the wrong and make full restitution (pay back all of it), adding a fifth (Numbers 5:6-7); Jesus said to be reconciled with your brother before bringing your gift (Matthew 5:23-24). Who acts: law, Jesus, your. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost l
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# Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 16

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The law says to confess the wrong and make full restitution (pay back all of it), adding a fifth (Numbers 5:6-7); Jesus said to be reconciled with your brother before bringing your gift (Matthew 5:23-24).

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**Who acts:** law, Jesus, your · **What happens:** say, confess, make, pay back, add, reconcile · **To what, where:** wrong, full restitution, all, fifth, gift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (law, Jesus, your), 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:16
# text = The law says to confess the wrong and make full restitution (pay back all of it), adding a fifth (Numbers 5:6-7); Jesus said to be reconciled with your brother before bringing your gift (Matthew 5:23-24).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	restitution	restitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Numbers	Numbers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	5:6-7	5:6-7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	reconciled	reconcile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	5:23-24	5:23-24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	flat	_	_
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the law |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **confess** | to-infinitive | the law *not said here* | the wrong |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | the law *not said here* | full restitution |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset restitution=Product |
| 4 | **pay back** | infinitive | the law *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Asset |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | the law *not said here* | a fifth |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **reconcile** | to-infinitive · passive | Jesus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your brother | tree rules |
| 8 | **bring** | gerund | Jesus *not said here* | your gift |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 9 | **gift** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, 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.

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