Promises, sentence 14
Keeping small promises is how people learn they can rely on you.
Who acts: people · What happens: keep, be, rely · To what, where: small promises · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises» of the everyday 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 (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 | Keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 learn | csubj |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 promises | amod |
| 3 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 learn | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 learn | advmod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 learn | nsubj |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rely | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 rely | aux |
| 10 | rely | rely | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 learn | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 rely | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | small promises | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | people | learn property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rely | can | people | on you | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on you=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, 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:everyday:199-promises.lesson:14.
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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