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title: Saying sorry when you hurt or bump someone shows you care about how… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying sorry when you hurt or bump someone shows you care about how they feel. Who acts: someone, you, acts. A sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Manners and kindness, sentence 10

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Saying sorry when you hurt or bump someone shows you care about how they feel.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, acts · **What happens:** say, hurt, bump, show, care, feel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (someone, you, acts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:10
# text = Saying sorry when you hurt or bump someone shows you care about how they feel.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 051-manners-and-kindness.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	bump	bump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: apologize* | gerund | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bump** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **care** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **feel** | present | acts *= act* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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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