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title: The New Testament word for repentance, metanoia, means a change of m… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: The New Testament word for repentance, metanoia, means a change of mind and direction; a sorry repeated every day without change is not real. Who acts: New Testament word, sorry, mind. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of the religion ethics course of Mov
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 12

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The New Testament word for repentance, metanoia, means a change of mind and direction; a sorry repeated every day without change is not real.

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**Who acts:** New Testament word, sorry, mind · **What happens:** mean, repeat, not be, change · **To what, where:** change

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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 (New Testament word, sorry, mind), 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:12
# text = The New Testament word for repentance, metanoia, means a change of mind and direction; a sorry repeated every day without change is not real.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Testament	testament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	repentance	repentance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	metanoia	metanoia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
20	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **mean** | present | the New Testament word for repentance and metanoia | a change of mind and direction |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic |
| 2 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  | day | without change | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | a sorry |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** |  | mind and direction |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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 ×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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