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title: "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confe… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy" (Proverbs 28:13). Who acts: Whoever, one. 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 dependenc
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# Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 6

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"Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy" (Proverbs 28:13).

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**Who acts:** Whoever, one · **What happens:** conceal, not prosper, confess, renounce, find · **To what, where:** sins, mercy

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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 (Whoever, one), 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:6
# text = "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy" (Proverbs 28:13).
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
3	conceals	conceal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	confesses	confess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	renounces	renounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
23	28:13	28:13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** *in a quote* | present |  | Christians's sins |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **prosper** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Whoever |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **confess** *in a quote* | present | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **renounce** *in a quote* | present | the one *not said here* | sins *= sin* |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | present | the one | mercy |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic |

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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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**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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