Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 0
Letting someone down leaves a special kind of sting: you replay the moment, picture their face, and call yourself names in the dark.
Who acts: Letting, you · What happens: let down, leave, replay, picture, call · To what, where: someone, special kind, face, yourself, dark · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» of the reflection 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 (Letting, you), 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 | Letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 leaves | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Letting | obj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Letting | compound:prt |
| 4 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 6 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kind | amod |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaves | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sting | case |
| 9 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 replay | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 replay | nsubj |
| 12 | replay | replay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaves | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replay | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 picture | punct |
| 16 | picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 replay | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 picture | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 call | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 call | cc |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 picture | conj |
| 22 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 call | obj |
| 23 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 call | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 dark | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dark | det |
| 26 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | gerund | someone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | Letting | a special kind of sting | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | replay | present | you | moment | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | picture | infinitive | you not said here | their face | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | present | you not said here | yourself | the dark | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme name=Result |
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:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:0.
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 ×2, 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.
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