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title: Saying sorry once for a mistake is kind; saying it after every mista… — Teams and voice chat · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying sorry once for a mistake is kind; saying it after every mistake can distract the team. Who acts: Saying, mistake. A sentence of the lesson «Teams and voice chat» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teams and voice chat, sentence 27

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Saying sorry once for a mistake is kind; saying it after every mistake can distract the team.

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**Who acts:** Saying, mistake · **What happens:** say, be, distract · **To what, where:** mistake, team · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teams and voice chat» 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, mistake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:27
# text = Saying sorry once for a mistake is kind; saying it after every mistake can distract the team.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 405-teams-and-voice-chat.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	distract	distract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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: apologize* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a mistake; once, sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Saying |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | mistake |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **distract** | can | every mistake | the team |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus team=Experiencer |

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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:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:27`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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