--- title: When you break or damage something, a sorry plus making it right, li… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics description: When you break or damage something, a sorry plus making it right, like paying or fixing, is stronger than sorry alone. Who acts: you, sorry. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sorry), 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:30 # text = When you break or damage something, a sorry plus making it right, like paying or fixing, is stronger than sorry alone. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 damage damage VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sorry sorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 10 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 like like SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 acl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 fixing fixing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod 24 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | you | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **damage** | present | you *not said here* | something | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 3 | **make** | gerund | a sorry *not said here* | sorry | | | | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **pay** | gerund | a sorry *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fixing** | gerund | a sorry *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | a sorry | | | | | than alone; sorry *obl*; strong *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:30`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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