Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 15

Forgetting a friend's birthday does not mean you don't care; saying sorry fast and doing something special fixes most of it ("belated" means late).

Who acts: Forgetting, you, saying, belated · What happens: forget, not mean, not care, say, do, fix · To what, where: birthday, something, most · 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 (Forgetting, you, saying, belated), 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	Forgetting	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 mean	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birthday	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 friend	case
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forgetting	obj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 care	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 care	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 care	advmod
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 mean	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 fixes	csubj
15	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saying	ccomp
16	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sorry	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 doing	cc
18	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 saying	conj
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 doing	obj
20	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 something	amod
21	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	parataxis
22	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 fixes	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 most	nmod
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 belated	punct
27	belated	belat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 means	nsubj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 belated	punct
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fixes	parataxis
30	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 means	advmod
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	gerund		a friend's birthday		tree rules
2	not mean	present · do-support	Forgetting			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not care	present · do-support	you			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	do	gerund		something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
6	fix	present	saying	most of birthday		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent most=Patient
7	mean	present	belated		late property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:15.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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