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title: A sorry said with a smirk or a sarcastic voice is just another dig,… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: A sorry said with a smirk or a sarcastic voice is just another dig, and you are allowed to say so. Who acts: sorry, you. 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 cl
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# Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 29

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A sorry said with a smirk or a sarcastic voice is just another dig, and you are allowed to say so.

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**Who acts:** sorry, you · **What happens:** say, be, allow · **To what, where:** sorry, dig, 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 (sorry, 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:29
# text = A sorry said with a smirk or a sarcastic voice is just another dig, and you are allowed to say so.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smirk	smirk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	dig	dig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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: assert* | participle |  | a sorry *not said here* |  |  |  | with a smirk or a sarcastic voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smirk=Manner |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a sorry | another dig |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **allow** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:29`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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