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title: Picture a football flying through old Mrs Kowalski's greenhouse; all… — Owning up when it is hard · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a football flying through old Mrs Kowalski's greenhouse; all the kids leg it (run away), but Mia stops and goes back, which is brave and honest; most neighbours forgive a child who comes back and owns up. Who acts: you, football, kids, Mia. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard
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# Owning up when it is hard, sentence 1

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Picture a football flying through old Mrs Kowalski's greenhouse; all the kids leg it (run away), but Mia stops and goes back, which is brave and honest; most neighbours forgive a child who comes back and owns up.

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**Who acts:** you, football, kids, Mia, most neighbours, child · **What happens:** picture, fly, leg, run away, stop, go back · **To what, where:** football, old greenhouse, child

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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 (you, football, kids, Mia), 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:1
# text = Picture a football flying through old Mrs Kowalski's greenhouse; all the kids leg it (run away), but Mia stops and goes back, which is brave and honest; most neighbours forgive a child who comes back and owns up.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Kowalski	Kowalski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	leg	leg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
36	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	forgive	forgive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a football |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent football=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | a football *not said here* |  |  | Mrs's old greenhouse |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through greenhouse=Location |
| 3 | **leg** | present | all kids | football |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | present | Mia |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **go back** | present | Mia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **forgive** | present | most neighbours | a child |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 10 | **come back** | present | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **own up** | present | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2. **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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