Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 3
His first text, "soz", made it worse; what helped was saying sorry face to face with no excuses and then doing something just the two of them, because a sorry has to come with changed actions, not only words.
Who acts: first text, sorry face, sorry · What happens: make, help, say, do, have, come · To what, where: soz, something · 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 (first text, sorry face, sorry), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 text | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 text | amod |
| 3 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 soz | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 soz | punct |
| 6 | soz | soz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 text | appos |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 soz | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 text | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 helped | nsubj |
| 14 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saying | csubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saying | aux |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | parataxis |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saying | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 face | case |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 face | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 excuses | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 excuses | det |
| 23 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saying | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 doing | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 doing | advmod |
| 26 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 saying | conj |
| 27 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 doing | obj |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 two | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 two | det |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 something | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 two | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 has | punct |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 has | mark |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 sorry | det |
| 36 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 has | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 saying | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 come | mark |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 has | xcomp |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 actions | case |
| 41 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 actions | amod |
| 42 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 come | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 words | punct |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 words | advmod |
| 45 | only | only | ADV | _ | 46 words | advmod |
| 46 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 actions | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Sam's first text | soz | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 2 | help | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | sorry face | with no excuses | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with excuse=Manner | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | sorry face not said here | something | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | have | present | a sorry | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | a sorry not said here | with changed actions and words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | change | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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