Being a good grown-up, sentence 6
The secret of reliable people is to only promise what they can really do.
Who acts: secret, people · What happens: be, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life 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 (secret, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 secret | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 secret | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 promise | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 promise | mark |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 promise | advmod |
| 9 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promise | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: promise | present | the secret of reliable people | promise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | can | people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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, 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:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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.
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