--- title: The other person decides whether to accept a sorry; you cannot force… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics description: The other person decides whether to accept a sorry; you cannot force forgiveness. Who acts: other person, 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Saying sorry, and the sorry that is no…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted/) / 32 # Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 32 The other person decides whether to accept a sorry; you cannot force forgiveness. **Who acts:** other person, you · **What happens:** decide, accept, not force · **To what, where:** sorry, forgiveness 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 (other person, 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:32 # text = The other person decides whether to accept a sorry; you cannot force forgiveness. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sorry sorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 force force VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 15 forgiveness forgiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **decide** | present | the other person | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **accept** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the other person *not said here* | a sorry | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorry=Theme | | 3 | **not** **force** | can | you | forgiveness | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient | 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. 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