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title: When a parent says "I'm sorry I shouted", they know shouting was not… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics
description: When a parent says "I'm sorry I shouted", they know shouting was not fair, even if you had done something wrong; you can answer "That's OK" or "Thank you". Who acts: parent, anger, you, That. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with
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# Big feelings in big people, sentence 11

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When a parent says "I'm sorry I shouted", they know shouting was not fair, even if you had done something wrong; you can answer "That's OK" or "Thank you".

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**Who acts:** parent, anger, you, That · **What happens:** say, be, shout, know, not be, do · **To what, where:** something, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (parent, anger, you, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:11
# text = When a parent says "I'm sorry I shouted", they know shouting was not fair, even if you had done something wrong; you can answer "That's OK" or "Thank you".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
32	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
33	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	OK	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a parent *= parent* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | a parent *= parent* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | present | anger |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | ok *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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.

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**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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