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title: Jake sits on Sam's new headphones and snaps them: «Sorry, mate.» «So… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake sits on Sam's new headphones and snaps them: «Sorry, mate.» «Sorry doesn't fix them, does it?» Jake pays half from his birthday money, and then Sam accepts. Who acts: Jake, Sorry, Sam. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 15

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Jake sits on Sam's new headphones and snaps them: «Sorry, mate.» «Sorry doesn't fix them, does it?» Jake pays half from his birthday money, and then Sam accepts.

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**Who acts:** Jake, Sorry, Sam · **What happens:** sit, snap, not fix, pay, accept · **To what, where:** new headphones, headphones, half, birthday money · **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 (Jake, Sorry, Sam), 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:15
# text = Jake sits on Sam's new headphones and snaps them: «Sorry, mate.» «Sorry doesn't fix them, does it?» Jake pays half from his birthday money, and then Sam accepts.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
19	Sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
29	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
31	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	30	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
39	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	accepts	accept	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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 | **sit** | present | Jake |  |  | Sam's new headphones |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **snap** | present | Jake *not said here* | headphones *= headphone* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **fix** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Sorry | headphones *= headphone* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **pay** | present | Jake | half |  | Jake's birthday money |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Asset |
| 5 | **accept** | present | Sam |  |  |  | then |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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