Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 16
Kieran apologises to Mr Grimshaw for the greenhouse glass, and Mr Grimshaw says, «Apology accepted.
Who acts: Kieran, Mr, Apology · What happens: apologise, say, accept · To what, where: Mr · 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 (Kieran, Mr, Apology), 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 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 apologises | nsubj |
| 2 | apologises | apologise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Mr | case |
| 4 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 apologises | obl |
| 5 | Grimshaw | Grimshaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mr | flat |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 glass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 glass | det |
| 8 | greenhouse | greenhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glass | compound |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 apologises | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 says | cc |
| 12 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 13 | Grimshaw | Grimshaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mr | flat |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 apologises | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accepted | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 accepted | punct |
| 17 | Apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accepted | nsubj |
| 18 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 apologises | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apologise speech: apologize | present | Kieran | Mr | for the greenhouse glass | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Mr | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | accept in a quote | past | Apology | 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:16.
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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