Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 35
Sometimes an action, like a home-made cake, says sorry better than words.
Who acts: action · What happens: make, say · 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 (action), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 says | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 action | det |
| 3 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cake | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 cake | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cake | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cake | amod |
| 10 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 action | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 action | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADV | _ | 14 better | advmod |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 says | ccomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 words | case |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 better | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a action like a made cake | sometimes property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:35.
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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