Making peace between the streets, sentence 21
Apologising first can feel hard, but it often makes the other person ready to make peace.
Who acts: Apologising, apology, other person · What happens: apologise, feel, make · To what, where: other person, peace
This is a sentence of the lesson «Making peace between the streets» 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 (Apologising, apology, other person), 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 | Apologising | apologise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 feel | csubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Apologising | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 makes | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 makes | advmod |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obj |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ready | xcomp |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apologise speech: apologize | gerund | first property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | can | Apologising | hard property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | present | apology | the other person | often, ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material person=Product | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the other person not said here | peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |
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:394-making-peace-between-the-streets.lesson:21.
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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