Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 18
A real apology owns up to what you did without an excuse.
Who acts: real apology, you · What happens: own up, do
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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), 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 owns | nsubj |
| 4 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 up | fixed |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 owns | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 excuse | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 excuse | det |
| 12 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 owns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | present | a real apology | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you | without a excuse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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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