--- title: A boy in Leeds never said sorry after he knocked his friend's tower… — Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds never said sorry after he knocked his friend's tower down on purpose; his friend stopped playing with him, and the fight lasted for weeks. Who acts: boy, friend, fight. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, friend, fight), 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:16 # text = A boy in Leeds never said sorry after he knocked his friend's tower down on purpose; his friend stopped playing with him, and the fight lasted for weeks. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: apologize* | past | a boy in Leeds | | | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **knock down** | past | boy | boy's friend's tower | | purpose | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tower=Theme on purpose=Destination | | 3 | **stop** | past | boy's friend | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **play** | gerund | boy's friend *not said here* | | | | | with boy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **last** | past | the fight | | | | week | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.lesson:16`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/15/) - next →: [Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/)