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title: Aroha forgave a friend for a cruel prank, but asked her to say sorry… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics
description: Aroha forgave a friend for a cruel prank, but asked her to say sorry to the whole class too, since they'd all laughed. Who acts: Aroha, friends. A sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trusting again, sentence 26

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Aroha forgave a friend for a cruel prank, but asked her to say sorry to the whole class too, since they'd all laughed.

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**Who acts:** Aroha, friends · **What happens:** forgive, ask, say, laugh · **To what, where:** friend, Aroha, sorry, whole class · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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 (Aroha, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:455-trusting-again.lesson:26
# text = Aroha forgave a friend for a cruel prank, but asked her to say sorry to the whole class too, since they'd all laughed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 455-trusting-again.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 ×2
1	Aroha	Aroha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **forgive** | past | Aroha | a friend |  |  |  | for a cruel prank | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent friend=Theme for prank=Attribute |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Aroha *not said here* |  | Aroha |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Aroha *not said here* | sorry | the whole class |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic to class=Recipient |
| 4 | **laugh** | past · perfect | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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**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 ×2. **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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