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title: After Maddie told Lily's secret, she says a proper sorry; Lily says,… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: After Maddie told Lily's secret, she says a proper sorry; Lily says, «I forgive you, but no secrets for a while.» A month later Lily tries a tiny test secret, Maddie keeps it, and trust starts coming back. Who acts: Maddie, Lily, trust. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry, and the sorry that is n
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# Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 13

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After Maddie told Lily's secret, she says a proper sorry; Lily says, «I forgive you, but no secrets for a while.» A month later Lily tries a tiny test secret, Maddie keeps it, and trust starts coming back.

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**Who acts:** Maddie, Lily, trust · **What happens:** tell, say, forgive, try, keep, start · **To what, where:** secret, proper sorry, you, tiny test secret · **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 (Maddie, Lily, trust), 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:13
# text = After Maddie told Lily's secret, she says a proper sorry; Lily says, «I forgive you, but no secrets for a while.» A month later Lily tries a tiny test secret, Maddie keeps it, and trust starts coming back.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	forgive	forgive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nsubj
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
30	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
33	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=41:conj
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
40	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
47	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	xcomp	_	_
48	back	back	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Maddie | Lily's secret |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Maddie | a proper sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forgive** *in a quote* | present | Lily | you |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **try** | present | Lily | a tiny test secret |  |  |  | late *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Eventuality |
| 6 | **keep** | present | Maddie | secret |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **start** | present | trust |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **come back** | gerund | trust *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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