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title: Maddie apologises to Ellie for laughing when she fell in the mud; El… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie apologises to Ellie for laughing when she fell in the mud; Ellie says, «I'm never forgiving you, ever.» Her mum says, «You did the right thing. Who acts: Maddie, Ellie, mum, You. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted» of the everyday course of Mova's prima
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# Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 22

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Maddie apologises to Ellie for laughing when she fell in the mud; Ellie says, «I'm never forgiving you, ever.» Her mum says, «You did the right thing.

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**Who acts:** Maddie, Ellie, mum, You · **What happens:** apologise, laugh, fall, say, not forgive, do · **To what, where:** Ellie, mud, you, right thing · **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, Ellie, mum, 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:22
# text = Maddie apologises to Ellie for laughing when she fell in the mud; Ellie says, «I'm never forgiving you, ever.» Her mum says, «You did the right thing.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Maddie	Maddie	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	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	forgiving	forgive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
27	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
32	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29: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 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | present | Maddie |  | Ellie |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | Maddie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | Maddie |  |  | the mud |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mud=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ellie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **forgive** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Ellie | you |  |  | ever |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ellie's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **do** *in a quote* | past | You | the right thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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