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title: And Sam says sorry to Mrs Hughes for cheek, and means it: «Thank you… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: And Sam says sorry to Mrs Hughes for cheek, and means it: «Thank you, Sam. Who acts: Sam. 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 18

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And Sam says sorry to Mrs Hughes for cheek, and means it: «Thank you, Sam.

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**Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** say, mean, thank · **To what, where:** cheek, you · **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), 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:18
# text = And Sam says sorry to Mrs Hughes for cheek, and means it: «Thank you, Sam.
# 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
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Thank	thank	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: apologize* | present | Sam |  |  |  |  | for cheek; sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Sam *not said here* | cheek |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | you |  |  | Sam *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:18`.

**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. **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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