Promises to family, sentence 9
To a little brother, a gran or a cat, a broken promise means waiting, disappointment or hunger.
Who acts: broken promise · What happens: break, mean · To what, where: waiting
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 (broken promise), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 brother | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gran | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gran | det |
| 7 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 cat | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gran | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 promise | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 promise | det |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 promise | amod |
| 14 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | nsubj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disappointment | punct |
| 18 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waiting | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 hunger | cc |
| 20 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waiting | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | a broken promise | waiting and disappointment or hunger | to a little brother and a gran or a cat | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot waiting=Theme to brother=Attribute |
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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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