--- title: A public apology is judged by what the person does next; saying sorr… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics description: A public apology is judged by what the person does next; saying sorry in front of millions is hard. Who acts: person, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/20/) [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/) / [Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity go…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/) / 20 # Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 20 A public apology is judged by what the person does next; saying sorry in front of millions is hard. **Who acts:** person, saying · **What happens:** judge, do, say, be · **To what, where:** public apology, sorry, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 (person, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:20 # text = A public apology is judged by what the person does next; saying sorry in front of millions is hard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 apology apology NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 judged judge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 next next ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ _ 14 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **judge** | present · passive | | a public apology | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 2 | **do** | present | the person | | | | | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | sorry | | front of millions | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent sorry=Theme in front=Manner | | 4 | **is** | present | saying | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | 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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:20`. **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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