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title: A good apology names what you did and then makes it fair, for exampl… — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics
description: A good apology names what you did and then makes it fair, for example by sharing or giving back. Who acts: good apology, you. A sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Taking too much, sentence 20

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A good apology names what you did and then makes it fair, for example by sharing or giving back.

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**Who acts:** good apology, you · **What happens:** name, do, make, share, give back · **To what, where:** apology

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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 (good apology, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:20
# text = A good apology names what you did and then makes it fair, for example by sharing or giving back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **name** | present | a good apology |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | you |  |  |  |  | for example | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | present | a good apology *not said here* | apology |  |  | then | fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **share** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give back** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:20`.

**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. **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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