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title: When you are late to class, you say "Sorry I'm late" and sit down qu… — Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: When you are late to class, you say "Sorry I'm late" and sit down quietly. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, sentence 15

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When you are late to class, you say "Sorry I'm late" and sit down quietly.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, say, sit down · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» of the everyday 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 (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.lesson:15
# text = When you are late to class, you say "Sorry I'm late" and sit down quietly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
11	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:discourse
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
19	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | to class; late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit down** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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