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title: Sam says, «Come back when you mean it.» Two days later, alone, Jake… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam says, «Come back when you mean it.» Two days later, alone, Jake does. Who acts: Sam, you. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 10

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Sam says, «Come back when you mean it.» Two days later, alone, Jake does.

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**Who acts:** Sam, you · **What happens:** say, come back, mean · **To what, where:** heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted» 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 (Sam, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted.lesson:10
# text = Sam says, «Come back when you mean it.» Two days later, alone, Jake does.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted.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 ×3
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
15	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | you | heart |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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:477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted.lesson:10`.

**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 ×3. **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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