Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 11
When Connor pushes Kieran in the dinner queue, Kieran's mum makes him say «it's fine» — but inside he is still angry, so it isn't fine at all.
Who acts: Connor, mum, queue · What happens: push, make, say, be, not be · To what, where: Kieran, dinner queue, Connor, all · 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 (Connor, mum, queue), 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 | _ | 3 pushes | mark |
| 2 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | nsubj |
| 3 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 makes | advcl |
| 4 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 queue | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queue | det |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 queue | compound |
| 8 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 makes | punct |
| 10 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Kieran | case |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | nsubj |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 makes | obj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 fine | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fine | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fine | cop |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 say | ccomp |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 fine | punct |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fine | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 fine | cc |
| 23 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 27 angry | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 angry | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 angry | cop |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 angry | advmod |
| 27 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fine | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 angry | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 fine | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 fine | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fine | cop |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 fine | advmod |
| 33 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 makes | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 all | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 fine | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present | Connor | Kieran | the dinner queue | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent kieran=Theme in queue=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | present | Kieran's mum | Connor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Connor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | queue | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Connor | still | angry, inside property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not is | present | queue | all | fine property | tree rules |
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: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): no change. 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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