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title: Saying sorry does not cancel the consequences, such as a detention,… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying sorry does not cancel the consequences, such as a detention, but it changes how people see you. Who acts: Saying, sorry, people. 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 pragmat
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# Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 31

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Saying sorry does not cancel the consequences, such as a detention, but it changes how people see you.

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**Who acts:** Saying, sorry, people · **What happens:** say, not cancel, change, see · **To what, where:** consequences, 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 (Saying, sorry, people), 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:31
# text = Saying sorry does not cancel the consequences, such as a detention, but it changes how people see you.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:ccomp
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: disagree
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **cancel** | present · do-support | Saying | the consequences |  |  |  | such a detention | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | present | sorry |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present | people | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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:31`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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