Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 1
His mum makes him say sorry, so he mumbles «soz» to the floor.
Who acts: mum, Kieran · What happens: make, say, mumble · To what, where: Kieran, sorry, soz, floor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted» 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 (mum, Kieran), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mumbles | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 mumbles | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mumbles | nsubj |
| 10 | mumbles | mumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | parataxis |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 soz | punct |
| 12 | soz | soz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mumbles | obj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 soz | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mumbles | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Kieran's mum | Kieran | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Kieran not said here | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mumble speech: other | present | Kieran | soz | the floor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent soz=Topic to floor=Recipient |
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:477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted.lesson:1.
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 ×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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