Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 15
Researchers say a good apology names the wrong, takes responsibility, shows you understand the hurt, offers to fix it and promises change, with no "but".
Who acts: Researchers, good apology, you · What happens: say, name, take, show, understand, offer · To what, where: wrong, responsibility, hurt, change · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethics 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 (Researchers, good 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 | Researchers | researcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 apology | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apology | amod |
| 5 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 names | nsubj |
| 6 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wrong | det |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 names | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 takes | punct |
| 10 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 names | conj |
| 11 | responsibility | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 takes | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shows | punct |
| 13 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 names | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 understand | nsubj |
| 15 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shows | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hurt | det |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 understand | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 offers | punct |
| 19 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shows | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fix | mark |
| 21 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 offers | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fix | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 promises | cc |
| 24 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shows | conj |
| 25 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 promises | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 names | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 but | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 but | det |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 but | punct |
| 30 | but | but | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 names | obl |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 but | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Researchers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | name | present | a good apology | the wrong | with no but | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | present | a good apology not said here | responsibility | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | present | a good apology not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | understand | present | you | the hurt | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hurt=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | offer | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | fix not said to happen | to-infinitive | hurt | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 8 | promise speech: promise | present | a good apology not said here | change | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent change=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:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:15.
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 ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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