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title: Putting right an old wrong still matters, especially when someone el… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting right an old wrong still matters, especially when someone else took the blame (Exodus 20:16; Luke 19:8). Who acts: old wrong, someone. 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 tre
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 17

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Putting right an old wrong still matters, especially when someone else took the blame (Exodus 20:16; Luke 19:8).

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**Who acts:** old wrong, someone · **What happens:** put, matter, take · **To what, where:** blame

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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 (old wrong, someone), 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:17
# text = Putting right an old wrong still matters, especially when someone else took the blame (Exodus 20:16; Luke 19:8).
# 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
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Exodus	exodus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	20:16	20:16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	19:8	19:8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **put** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **matter** | present | a old wrong |  |  |  | still |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | past | someone | the blame |  |  |  | 19:8  Luke *obl*; especially *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=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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**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: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): 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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