Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 7
Mia's mom helps her write, «Sorry I said your drawing was ugly.
Who acts: mom, Mia, I, drawing, your · What happens: help, write, say, be, draw · To what, where: Mia · 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 (mom, Mia, I, drawing), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helps | nsubj |
| 4 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 helps | obj |
| 6 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helps | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 helps | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 11 said | discourse |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 helps | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 drawing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ugly | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ugly | cop |
| 15 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Mia's mom | Mia | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent her=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | infinitive | Mia not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | your drawing | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | draw in a quote | your | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=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:7.
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, R6-punct-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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