--- title: His first text, "soz", made it worse; what helped was saying sorry f… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: His first text, "soz", made it worse; what helped was saying sorry face to face with no excuses and then doing something just the two of them, because a sorry has to come with changed actions, not only words. Who acts: first text, sorry face, sorry. 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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 (first text, sorry face, sorry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:3 # text = His first text, "soz", made it worse; what helped was saying sorry face to face with no excuses and then doing something just the two of them, because a sorry has to come with changed actions, not only words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.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, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 soz soz NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 csubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:cop 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 17 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:mark 20 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 excuses excuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 27 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obj _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 nsubj _ _ 37 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 45 only only ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 46 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:obl 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | past | Sam's first text | soz | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 2 | **help** | past | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | sorry face | | | | | with no excuses | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with excuse=Manner | | 4 | **do** | gerund | sorry face *not said here* | something | | | then | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 5 | **have** | present | a sorry | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | a sorry *not said here* | | | | | with changed actions and words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **change** | participle | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:3`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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