Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 5
When a grown-up says "I'm sorry, I was out of order" after a row, it is a real apology to another adult; adults argue and make up too.
Who acts: grown up, row, adults · What happens: grow, say, be, argue, make up · To what, where: order, real apology · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» 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 (grown up, row, adults), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 6 says | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 up | det |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 up | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 apology | advcl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorry | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sorry | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorry | cop |
| 10 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 order | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 order | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 order | cop |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 order | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 order | case |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorry | parataxis |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 order | punct |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 row | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 row | det |
| 20 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorry | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 apology | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 apology | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 apology | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 apology | det |
| 25 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 apology | amod |
| 26 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 adult | case |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 adult | det |
| 29 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 apology | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 argue | punct |
| 31 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 argue | nsubj |
| 32 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 apology | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 make | cc |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 argue | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 make | compound:prt |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 34 make | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 apology | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a grown up | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a grown up = up | after a row | sorry property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | a grown up = up | order | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | row | a real apology | to another adult | tree rules | |||
| 6 | argue speech: disagree | present | adults | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | make up | present | adults not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:5.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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