--- title: Saying something unkind in a moment does not define a whole relation… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics description: Saying something unkind in a moment does not define a whole relationship, but it is good to say sorry while you can. Who acts: Saying. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:11 # text = Saying something unkind in a moment does not define a whole relationship, but it is good to say sorry while you can. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 define define VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 relationship relationship NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 csubj _ _ 20 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | something | | | moment | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 2 | **not** **define** | present · do-support | Saying | a whole relationship | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Saying *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | sorry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | 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:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:11`. **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. 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