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title: Apologise or go home.» Phil goes home, rings a week later and says s… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics
description: Apologise or go home.» Phil goes home, rings a week later and says sorry to Mum properly. Who acts: you, Phil. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 17

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Apologise or go home.» Phil goes home, rings a week later and says sorry to Mum properly.

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**Who acts:** you, Phil · **What happens:** apologise, go, ring, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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 (you, Phil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:17
# text = Apologise or go home.» Phil goes home, rings a week later and says sorry to Mum properly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Apologise	apologise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
7	Phil	Phil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
17	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Phil |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ring** *in a quote* | present | Phil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: apologize* *in a quote* | present | Phil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | properly, sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:17`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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

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