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title: A real apology can mend a friendship, even after someone has been hu… — What everyone learned about fights · tree and pragmatics
description: A real apology can mend a friendship, even after someone has been hurt. Who acts: real apology. A sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What everyone learned about fights, sentence 22

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A real apology can mend a friendship, even after someone has been hurt.

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**Who acts:** real apology · **What happens:** mend, hurt · **To what, where:** friendship, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» 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 (real apology), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:22
# text = A real apology can mend a friendship, even after someone has been hurt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 395-what-everyone-learned.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **mend** | can | a real apology | a friendship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | present · perfect · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:22`.

**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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