Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 30
When you break or damage something, a sorry plus making it right, like paying or fixing, is stronger than sorry alone.
Who acts: you, sorry · What happens: break, damage, make, pay, fixing, be · To what, where: something, sorry
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 (you, sorry), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 break | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 break | nsubj |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sorry | advcl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 damage | cc |
| 5 | damage | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 break | conj |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 damage | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 break | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sorry | det |
| 9 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stronger | nsubj |
| 10 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 11 making | cc |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sorry | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 making | obj |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 making | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 paying | punct |
| 15 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 16 paying | mark |
| 16 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sorry | acl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 fixing | cc |
| 18 | fixing | fixing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 paying | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stronger | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stronger | cop |
| 21 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 alone | case |
| 23 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stronger | obl |
| 24 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stronger | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | damage | present | you not said here | something | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a sorry not said here | sorry | right property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 4 | pay | gerund | a sorry not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fixing | gerund | a sorry not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | a sorry | than alone; sorry obl; strong property | tree rules |
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:30.
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, R8-pos-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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