--- title: Sometimes an action, like a home-made cake, says sorry better than w… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes an action, like a home-made cake, says sorry better than words. Who acts: action. 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/35/) [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/) / 35 # Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 35 Sometimes an action, like a home-made cake, says sorry better than words. **Who acts:** action · **What happens:** make, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (action), 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:35 # text = Sometimes an action, like a home-made cake, says sorry better than words. # 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 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 sorry sorry ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 ccomp _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a action like a made cake | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:35`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Saying sorry, and the sorry that is no…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted/34/) - next →: [Saying sorry, and the sorry that is no…, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted/36/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted/)