Promises, sentence 27
Breaking a promise to keep someone safe can put them in danger.
Who acts: Breaking · What happens: break, keep, put · To what, where: promise, someone, promises, danger
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 (Breaking), 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 | Breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 put | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 promise | det |
| 3 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Breaking | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promise | acl |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 danger | case |
| 12 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=warn, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | a promise | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | someone | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | can | Breaking | promises = promise | danger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in danger=Destination |
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:27.
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.
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