Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, sentence 2
A real apology takes responsibility: "Sorry I called you stupid" is real, "Sorry if you were upset" is not, and sorry means you try not to do it again.
Who acts: real apology, parent, you · What happens: take, call, be, not be, mean, try · To what, where: responsibility, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» of the everyday 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 (real apology, parent, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apology | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apology | amod |
| 3 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | responsibility | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 8 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 10 called | discourse |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 real | csubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obj |
| 12 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 real | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 real | cop |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 takes | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 real | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sorry | punct |
| 18 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 22 upset | discourse |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 upset | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 upset | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 upset | cop |
| 22 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 is | csubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 is | punct |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 real | conj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 is | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 means | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 means | cc |
| 28 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 29 means | discourse |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 takes | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 try | nsubj |
| 31 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 means | ccomp |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 do | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 try | xcomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 do | obj |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 do | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | a real apology | responsibility | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | past | your parent = parent | you | stupid property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | present | real property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | mean | present | a real apology not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | try | present | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | not do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | responsibility | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.lesson:2.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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