--- title: Researchers say a good apology names the wrong, takes responsibility… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics description: Researchers say a good apology names the wrong, takes responsibility, shows you understand the hurt, offers to fix it and promises change, with no "but". Who acts: Researchers, good apology, you. 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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 (Researchers, good apology, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:15 # text = Researchers say a good apology names the wrong, takes responsibility, shows you understand the hurt, offers to fix it and promises change, with no "but". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Researchers researcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 5 apology apology NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wrong wrong NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 responsibility responsibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hurt hurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 promises promise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 but but NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Researchers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **name** | present | a good apology | the wrong | | | | with no but | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present | a good apology *not said here* | responsibility | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme | | 4 | **show** | present | a good apology *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **understand** | present | you | the hurt | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hurt=Stimulus | | 6 | **offer** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | hurt | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | a good apology *not said here* | change | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent change=Theme | 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:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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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