Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 7

A real apology names what you did, gives no excuses and comes with changed actions; a quick "soz" text often makes it worse.

Who acts: real apology, you, quick soz text · What happens: name, do, give, come, change, make · To what, where: excuses, apology

This is a sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» of the reflection 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, quick soz text), 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 names	nsubj
4	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 did	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 names	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gives	punct
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 names	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 excuses	det
11	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gives	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 comes	cc
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gives	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 actions	case
15	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 actions	amod
16	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 comes	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 text	det
19	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 text	amod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 soz	punct
21	soz	soz	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 text	compound
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 soz	punct
23	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 makes	nsubj
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 makes	advmod
25	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gives	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 makes	obj
27	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 makes	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 names	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	name	present	a real apology			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	give	present	a real apology not said here	no excuses		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme
4	come	present	a real apology not said here		with changed actions	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	change	participle				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	present	a quick soz text	apology	bad, often property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.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): R1-cc-next ×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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