--- title: Some owning up is hard because it costs you: in front of the class,… — Owning up when it is hard · tree and pragmatics description: Some owning up is hard because it costs you: in front of the class, at a friend's house, or when someone else already took the blame for you. Who acts: Some, it, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Owning up when it is hard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/) / 0 # Owning up when it is hard, sentence 0 Some owning up is hard because it costs you: in front of the class, at a friend's house, or when someone else already took the blame for you. **Who acts:** Some, it, someone · **What happens:** own up, be, cost, take · **To what, where:** you, front, blame This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» 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 (Some, it, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:0 # text = Some owning up is hard because it costs you: in front of the class, at a friend's house, or when someone else already took the blame for you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 2 owning own VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 nmod _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 25 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 26 else else ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 already already ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is** | present | Some | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cost** | present | it | you | | front of the class and a friend's house | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value | | 4 | **take** | past | someone | the blame | | | | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blame=Theme for you=Beneficiary | 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. **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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Saying sorry and making amends: Zaccha…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/90-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back/18/) - next →: [Owning up when it is hard, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/)