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title: Mia writes Ava a note: «Sorry you got upset.» Ava gets even more ups… — Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia writes Ava a note: «Sorry you got upset.» Ava gets even more upset, because that blames her for feeling bad. Who acts: Mia, you, Ava, that. 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
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# Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 6

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Mia writes Ava a note: «Sorry you got upset.» Ava gets even more upset, because that blames her for feeling bad.

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**Who acts:** Mia, you, Ava, that · **What happens:** write, get, blame, feel · **To what, where:** note, Ava

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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 (Mia, you, Ava, that), 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:6
# text = Mia writes Ava a note: «Sorry you got upset.» Ava gets even more upset, because that blames her for feeling bad.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
11	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
18	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	blames	blame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **write** | present | Mia | a note | Ava |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ava=Recipient note=Topic |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | you | a note *not said here* |  |  |  | upset *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 3 | **get** | present | Ava |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **blame** | present | that | Ava |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:6`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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