--- title: People forgive faster when you tell them than when they discover it… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics description: People forgive faster when you tell them than when they discover it themselves; "Confess your sins to each other" (James 5:16). Who acts: People, you. 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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 (People, you), 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:17 # text = People forgive faster when you tell them than when they discover it themselves; "Confess your sins to each other" (James 5:16). # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 forgive forgive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 discover discover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:unmarked 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Confess confess VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 16 obl _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 fixed _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 25 5:16 5:16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 flat _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forgive** | present | People | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **discover** | present | people | gift | | | | people *obl* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **confess** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your sins | | | | to each | tree rules | 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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×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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