Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 34
Some apologies are refused, sometimes for years; you can only control your own part.
Who acts: you · What happens: refuse, control · To what, where: apologies, own part
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), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 apologies | det |
| 2 | apologies | apology | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 refused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | aux:pass |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 years | punct |
| 6 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 years | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 refused | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 control | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 control | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 control | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 control | advmod |
| 13 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refused | parataxis |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 part | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 part | amod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 control | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | present · passive | some apologies | year | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | control | can | you | your own part | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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:34.
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 ×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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