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title: If a lost thing you were paid for turns up, take it back and tell th… — Owning up when it is hard · tree and pragmatics
description: If a lost thing you were paid for turns up, take it back and tell them: "We are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man" (2 Corinthians 8:21). Who acts: lost thing, you, We. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» of the religion et
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# Owning up when it is hard, sentence 12

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If a lost thing you were paid for turns up, take it back and tell them: "We are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man" (2 Corinthians 8:21).

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**Who acts:** lost thing, you, We · **What happens:** lose, pay, turn up, take back, tell, take · **To what, where:** you, thing, reports, pains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (lost thing, you, We), 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:12
# text = If a lost thing you were paid for turns up, take it back and tell them: "We are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man" (2 Corinthians 8:21).
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
9	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl
23	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	also	also	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
47	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	Corinthians	Corinthians	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
49	8:21	8:21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	flat	_	_
50	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pay** | past · passive | a lost thing *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 3 | **turn up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a lost thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take back** | imperative | you *not said here* | thing |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | reports *= report* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | present · progressive | We | pains |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent pain=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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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**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. **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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