Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 1

Sam promised his best mate Jake he'd come to his birthday, then cooler kids asked him to the cinema and he went; Jake's mum texted, "Jake waited at the door for an hour," and that night Sam couldn't eat, thinking, "I'm a proper snake.

Who acts: Sam, cooler kids, mum, Jake · What happens: promise, come, ask, go, text, wait · To what, where: best mate, birthday, Sam, door, proper snake · 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 (Sam, cooler kids, mum, Jake), 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mate	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 mate	amod
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
6	Jake	jake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mate	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 birthday	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 birthday	nmod:poss
12	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 asked	advmod
15	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 kids	amod
16	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 cinema	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cinema	det
21	cinema	cinema	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 mum	punct
26	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 mum	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Jake	case
28	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 texted	nsubj
29	texted	text	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 texted	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 mum	punct
32	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 waited	nsubj
33	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 texted	ccomp
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 door	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 door	det
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waited	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 hour	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hour	det
39	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waited	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 eat	cc
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 night	det
44	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 eat	obl:unmarked
45	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 eat	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 eat	aux
47	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 eat	advmod
48	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 thinking	punct
50	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 eat	advcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 snake	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 snake	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 snake	nsubj
54	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 snake	cop
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 snake	det
56	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 snake	amod
57	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 thinking	ccomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Sam	Sam's best mate					vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	would	Sam			Sam's birthday			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to birthday=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	cooler kids		Sam		then	to the cinema	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	go	past	Sam						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	text	past	Jake's mum						tree rules
6	wait in a quote	past	Jake			the door	hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location
7	not eat	could	Sam				night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	think speech: other	gerund	Sam not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a in a quote	present	Sam	a proper snake					tree rules

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:1.

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, 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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