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title: Kieran apologises to Mr Grimshaw for the greenhouse glass, and Mr Gr… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran apologises to Mr Grimshaw for the greenhouse glass, and Mr Grimshaw says, «Apology accepted. Who acts: Kieran, Mr, Apology. 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 o
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# Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 16

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Kieran apologises to Mr Grimshaw for the greenhouse glass, and Mr Grimshaw says, «Apology accepted.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, Mr, Apology · **What happens:** apologise, say, accept · **To what, where:** Mr · **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 (Kieran, Mr, Apology), 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:16
# text = Kieran apologises to Mr Grimshaw for the greenhouse glass, and Mr Grimshaw says, «Apology accepted.
# 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): no change
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	apologises	apologise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | present | Kieran |  | Mr |  |  | for the greenhouse glass | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mr |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **accept** *in a quote* | past | Apology |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:16`.

**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): no change. **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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