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title: A boy in Brisbane yells at his sister when angry; later he says "Sor… — Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Brisbane yells at his sister when angry; later he says "Sorry I shouted at you", and he really does stop shouting, so she believes him the next time. Who acts: boy, friendship. A sentence of the lesson «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, sentence 4

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A boy in Brisbane yells at his sister when angry; later he says "Sorry I shouted at you", and he really does stop shouting, so she believes him the next time.

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**Who acts:** boy, friendship · **What happens:** yell, say, shout, stop, believe · **To what, where:** boy · **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 (boy, friendship), 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:4
# text = A boy in Brisbane yells at his sister when angry; later he says "Sorry I shouted at you", and he really does stop shouting, so she believes him the next time.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
16	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	really	really	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
28	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	believes	believe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | a boy in Brisbane |  |  |  |  | at boy's sister | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sister=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | boy |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | boy |  |  |  |  | at you | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** | present · do-support | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **believe** | present | friendship | boy |  |  | time |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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:4`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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