--- title: The priest listened, said that God forgives him, gave him a small pe… — Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry · tree and pragmatics description: The priest listened, said that God forgives him, gave him a small penance — a short prayer and one kind thing for the lollipop lady — and said «Now go and say sorry to her face». Who acts: priest, God. 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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 (priest, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:6 # text = The priest listened, said that God forgives him, gave him a small penance — a short prayer and one kind thing for the lollipop lady — and said «Now go and say sorry to her face». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 forgives forgive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 penance penance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 — - PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 lollipop lollipop NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 — - PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 33 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 36 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | past | the priest | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the priest *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **forgive** | present | God | priest | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | past | God *not said here* | a small penance | priest | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient penance=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the priest *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | now | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: apologize* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:6`. **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. 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