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title: Saying sorry is the start; doing the missed job, or extra, is what p… — Homework, practice and the team counting on you · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying sorry is the start; doing the missed job, or extra, is what puts it right. Who acts: Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Homework, practice and the team counting on you, sentence 24

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Saying sorry is the start; doing the missed job, or extra, is what puts it right.

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**Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, be, do, miss, put · **To what, where:** sorry, start, missed job, job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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 (Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:24
# text = Saying sorry is the start; doing the missed job, or extra, is what puts it right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.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	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
17	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Saying | the start |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  | the missed job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 4 | **miss** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | present |  | job |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:24`.

**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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