Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 27

A real apology looks at the person, says what you did, says why it was wrong, and has no excuses.

Who acts: real apology, you, Apology · What happens: look, say, do, be, have · To what, where: excuses · 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 (real apology, you, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 apology	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apology	amod
3	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 did	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 wrong	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wrong	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wrong	cop
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 says	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 has	cc
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 excuses	det
23	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 has	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	a real apology		at the person	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at person=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a real apology not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	present	a real apology not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Apology		wrong property	tree rules
6	have	present	a real apology not said here	no excuses		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Patient

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:27.

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): R7-rel-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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