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title: Scripture asks for both: confess the wrong and make it good (Numbers… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scripture asks for both: confess the wrong and make it good (Numbers 5:6-7); a new pen without a sorry is only half. Who acts: Scripture, new pen. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 11

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Scripture asks for both: confess the wrong and make it good (Numbers 5:6-7); a new pen without a sorry is only half.

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**Who acts:** Scripture, new pen · **What happens:** ask, confess, make, be · **To what, where:** wrong, half

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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 (Scripture, new pen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:11
# text = Scripture asks for both: confess the wrong and make it good (Numbers 5:6-7); a new pen without a sorry is only half.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Scripture	scripture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Numbers	Numbers	PROPN	NNP	_	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos
15	5:6-7	5:6-7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Scripture |  |  |  |  | for both | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **confess** | infinitive |  | the wrong |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | wrong |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a new pen without a sorry | half |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:11`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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

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