Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 13
After Maddie told Lily's secret, she says a proper sorry; Lily says, «I forgive you, but no secrets for a while.» A month later Lily tries a tiny test secret, Maddie keeps it, and trust starts coming back.
Who acts: Maddie, Lily, trust · What happens: tell, say, forgive, try, keep, start · To what, where: secret, proper sorry, you, tiny test secret · 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 (Maddie, Lily, trust), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 told | mark |
| 2 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | advcl |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 secret | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lily | case |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sorry | det |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sorry | amod |
| 12 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 14 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgive | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgive | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 forgive | nsubj |
| 19 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 forgive | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 secrets | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 secrets | cc |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 secrets | det |
| 24 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 forgive | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 while | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 while | det |
| 27 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 secrets | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 secrets | punct |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 secrets | punct |
| 30 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 month | det |
| 31 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 later | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 tries | advmod |
| 33 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 tries | nsubj |
| 34 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 secret | det |
| 36 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 secret | amod |
| 37 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 secret | compound |
| 38 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tries | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 keeps | punct |
| 40 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 keeps | nsubj |
| 41 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 keeps | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 starts | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 starts | cc |
| 45 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 starts | nsubj |
| 46 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 keeps | conj |
| 47 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 starts | xcomp |
| 48 | back | back | ADV | _ | 47 coming | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Maddie | Lily's secret | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Maddie | a proper sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Lily | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | forgive in a quote | present | Lily | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | try | present | Lily | a tiny test secret | late property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | keep | present | Maddie | secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | start | present | trust | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | come back | gerund | trust not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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