--- title: When a grown-up says "I'm sorry, I was out of order" after a row, it… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: When a grown-up says "I'm sorry, I was out of order" after a row, it is a real apology to another adult; adults argue and make up too. Who acts: grown up, row, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sorry, white lies and «because I said…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/) / 5 # Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 5 When a grown-up says "I'm sorry, I was out of order" after a row, it is a real apology to another adult; adults argue and make up too. **Who acts:** grown up, row, adults · **What happens:** grow, say, be, argue, make up · **To what, where:** order, real apology · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» 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 (grown up, row, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:5 # text = When a grown-up says "I'm sorry, I was out of order" after a row, it is a real apology to another adult; adults argue and make up too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 3 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 out out ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 apology apology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 31 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a grown up | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a grown up *= up* | | | | after a row | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | a grown up *= up* | | | order | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | row | a real apology | | | | to another adult | tree rules | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | adults | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **make up** | present | adults *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:5`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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