Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 13
Being trusted with a job by a grown-up, like walking a dog, is a big deal; breaking that trust can still be fixed by going back, apologising and being reliable.
Who acts: breaking · What happens: trust, grow up, walk, be, break, fix · To what, where: dog, big deal, trust
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 (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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 trusted | aux:pass |
| 2 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 deal | csubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 job | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 job | det |
| 5 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trusted | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 grown | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 up | det |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 trusted | obl:agent |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 up | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 grown | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 walking | mark |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 grown | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 deal | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 deal | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 deal | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deal | amod |
| 20 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fixed | punct |
| 22 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 fixed | csubj:pass |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 trust | det |
| 24 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 breaking | obj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 fixed | aux |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 fixed | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 fixed | aux:pass |
| 28 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 deal | parataxis |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 going | mark |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 fixed | advcl |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 going | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 apologising | punct |
| 33 | apologising | apologise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 going | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 reliable | cc |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 reliable | cop |
| 36 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 apologising | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | gerund · passive | with a job | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with job=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | a dog | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a big deal | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | break | gerund | that trust | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient | |||||
| 6 | fix | can · passive | breaking | still | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 7 | go back | gerund | breaking not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | apologise speech: apologize | gerund | breaking not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | is | gerund | breaking not said here | reliable property | 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:13.
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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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