Promises, sentence 20
Dropping a promise for a better offer hurts the other person, so keep it or ask them honestly first.
Who acts: Dropping · What happens: drop, hurt, keep, ask · To what, where: promise, other person, person, 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 (Dropping), 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 | Dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hurts | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 promise | det |
| 3 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dropping | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 offer | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 offer | det |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 offer | amod |
| 7 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promise | nmod |
| 8 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 person | amod |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurts | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dropping | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 keep | advmod |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurts | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 ask | cc |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | iobj |
| 19 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 17 ask | advmod |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 ask | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | gerund | a promise | for a better offer | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present | Dropping | the other person | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | person | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | promises = promise | first, honestly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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:20.
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 ×4, 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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