Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 24
That's her choice.» Lily's dad writes a long sorry letter to his brother after ten years; it comes back unopened.
Who acts: That, dad, letter · What happens: be, write, come back · To what, where: choice, long sorry letter, brother · 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 (That, dad, letter), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 choice | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 choice | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 choice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 choice | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 choice | punct |
| 7 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Lily | case |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 writes | nsubj |
| 10 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 choice | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 letter | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 letter | amod |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 letter | amod |
| 14 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 writes | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 writes | obl |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 writes | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 writes | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 writes | parataxis |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 comes | advmod |
| 25 | unopened | unopened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 comes | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 choice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | mum's choice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write in a quote | present | Lily's dad | a long sorry letter | dad's brother | year | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to brother=Recipient | ||
| 3 | come back in a quote | present | letter | unopened property | 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:24.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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