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title: Then she said sorry to the girl's face and told her friends it wasn'… — Teasing and laughing at others · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she said sorry to the girl's face and told her friends it wasn't funny — that was the hard part, and the part that mattered. Who acts: Maya, teacher, that, part. A sentence of the lesson «Teasing and laughing at others» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 3

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Then she said sorry to the girl's face and told her friends it wasn't funny — that was the hard part, and the part that mattered.

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**Who acts:** Maya, teacher, that, part · **What happens:** say, tell, not be, be, matter · **To what, where:** sorry, face, friends, hard part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teasing and laughing at others» 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 (Maya, teacher, that, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.lesson:3
# text = Then she said sorry to the girl's face and told her friends it wasn't funny — that was the hard part, and the part that mattered.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	iobj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	mattered	matter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maya | sorry | the girl's face |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic to face=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Maya *not said here* |  | Maya's friends |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | teacher |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that | the hard part and the part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **matter** | past | the part |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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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**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.

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

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