--- title: A real apology takes responsibility: "Sorry I called you stupid" is… — Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry · tree and pragmatics description: A real apology takes responsibility: "Sorry I called you stupid" is real, "Sorry if you were upset" is not, and sorry means you try not to do it again. Who acts: real apology, parent, you. 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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 (real apology, parent, you), 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:2 # text = A real apology takes responsibility: "Sorry I called you stupid" is real, "Sorry if you were upset" is not, and sorry means you try not to do it again. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 apology apology NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 responsibility responsibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 csubj _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 Sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 csubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obj 31 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | a real apology | responsibility | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme | | 2 | **call** *in a quote* | past | your parent *= parent* | | you | | | stupid *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | | | | | upset *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **be** | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | a real apology *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **try** | present | you | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **not** **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | responsibility | | | again | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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 ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/1/) - next →: [Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/)