Promises to family, sentence 23
Keeping small promises builds trust, so people believe your bigger ones.
Who acts: Keeping, people · What happens: keep, build, believe · To what, where: small promises, trust, bigger ones
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (Keeping, 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 | 4 builds | csubj |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 promises | amod |
| 3 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 4 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 builds | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 builds | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 believe | advmod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 believe | nsubj |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 builds | advcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 believe | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 builds | 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 | build | present | Keeping | trust | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trust=Product | ||||
| 3 | believe | present | people | your bigger ones | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:23.
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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