Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 15
Jake sits on Sam's new headphones and snaps them: «Sorry, mate.» «Sorry doesn't fix them, does it?» Jake pays half from his birthday money, and then Sam accepts.
Who acts: Jake, Sorry, Sam · What happens: sit, snap, not fix, pay, accept · To what, where: new headphones, headphones, half, birthday money · 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 (Jake, Sorry, Sam), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 headphones | case |
| 4 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 headphones | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Sam | case |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 headphones | amod |
| 7 | headphones | headphone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sits | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 snaps | cc |
| 9 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 snaps | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sorry | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sorry | punct |
| 13 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 2 sits | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sorry | punct |
| 15 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sorry | vocative |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sorry | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sorry | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
| 19 | Sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fix | nsubj |
| 20 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fix | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fix | advmod |
| 22 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fix | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 does | punct |
| 25 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fix | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 does | nsubj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 does | punct |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
| 29 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 pays | nsubj |
| 30 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | parataxis |
| 31 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 30 pays | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 money | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 money | nmod:poss |
| 34 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 money | compound |
| 35 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pays | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 accepts | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 accepts | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 accepts | advmod |
| 39 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 accepts | nsubj |
| 40 | accepts | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 pays | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Jake | Sam's new headphones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snap | present | Jake not said here | headphones = headphone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not fix in a quote | present · do-support | Sorry | headphones = headphone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pay | present | Jake | half | Jake's birthday money | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Asset | |||
| 5 | accept | present | Sam | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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