--- title: A real apology names what you did, gives no excuses and comes with c… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: A real apology names what you did, gives no excuses and comes with changed actions; a quick "soz" text often makes it worse. Who acts: real apology, you, quick soz text. 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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 (real apology, you, quick soz text), 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:7 # text = A real apology names what you did, gives no excuses and comes with changed actions; a quick "soz" text often makes it worse. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 apology apology NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 excuses excuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 13 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 19 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 soz soz NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **name** | present | a real apology | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | past | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **give** | present | a real apology *not said here* | no excuses | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme | | 4 | **come** | present | a real apology *not said here* | | | | | with changed actions | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **change** | participle | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | present | a quick soz text | apology | | | | bad, often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:7`. **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, R6-punct-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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