Big feelings in big people, sentence 11
When a parent says "I'm sorry I shouted", they know shouting was not fair, even if you had done something wrong; you can answer "That's OK" or "Thank you".
Who acts: parent, anger, you, That · What happens: say, be, shout, know, not be, do · To what, where: something, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (parent, anger, you, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 says | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parent | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | cop |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 shouted | nsubj |
| 10 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shouted | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | parataxis |
| 15 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 fair | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fair | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 fair | advmod |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 know | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 done | advmod |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 know | conj |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 done | obj |
| 26 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 something | amod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 answer | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 answer | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 answer | aux |
| 30 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 OK | punct |
| 32 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 OK | nsubj |
| 33 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 OK | cop |
| 34 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 answer | ccomp |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 OK | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 Thank | cc |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Thank | punct |
| 38 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 answer | parataxis |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 Thank | obj |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Thank | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a parent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a parent = parent | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | a parent = parent | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | present | anger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not is | past | fair property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | answer speech: assert | can | you | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | is in a quote | present | That | ok property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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, 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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:11.
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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