Promises, sentence 18
Grown-ups sometimes cannot keep promises because things change, and calmly talking about it helps.
Who acts: Grown ups, things, talking · What happens: not keep, change, talk, help · To what, where: promises
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 (Grown ups, things, talking), 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 | Grown | grown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ups | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 keep | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 keep | advmod |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 11 change | mark |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 change | nsubj |
| 11 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 helps | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 helps | cc |
| 14 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 15 talking | advmod |
| 15 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 helps | csubj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 talking | obl |
| 18 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | can | Grown ups | promises | sometimes property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | |||
| 2 | change | present | things | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | about thing; calmly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help | present | talking | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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, 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:18.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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