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title: Full owning up has no "but", and it opens the door to making amends:… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics
description: Full owning up has no "but", and it opens the door to making amends: saying sorry, helping fix it, or paying for the damage. Who acts: owning, problem. 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 its depe
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# Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 3

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Full owning up has no "but", and it opens the door to making amends: saying sorry, helping fix it, or paying for the damage.

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**Who acts:** owning, problem · **What happens:** own up, have, open, make, say, help · **To what, where:** door, amends, problem · **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 (owning, problem), 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:3
# text = Full owning up has no "but", and it opens the door to making amends: saying sorry, helping fix it, or paying for the damage.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Full	full	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	amends	amends	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
20	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:ccomp
23	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **have** | present | owning |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **open** | present | problem | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | problem *not said here* | amends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amends=Product |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | problem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **help** | gerund | problem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **fix** | infinitive | problem *not said here* | problem |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the damage | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for damage=Theme |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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