Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 5

Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly, so fixing it takes patience; and one forgotten job or one dropped baton does not make you useless.

Who acts: Trust, fixing, one forgotten job · What happens: break, grow, fix, take, forget, drop · To what, where: Trust, patience, you

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 (Trust, fixing, one forgotten job), 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	Trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	_	2 breaks	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grows	cc
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 breaks	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 grows	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 takes	advmod
10	fixing	fix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 takes	csubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fixing	obj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 breaks	conj
13	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 job	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 job	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 job	nummod
17	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 job	amod
18	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	nsubj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 baton	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 baton	nummod
21	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 baton	amod
22	baton	baton	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 job	conj
23	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 make	advmod
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 breaks	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 make	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	present	Trust		fast property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	grow	present	Trust not said here		slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fix	gerund		Trust		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	take	present	fixing	patience		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Theme
5	forget	participle				tree rules
6	drop	participle				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	not make	present · do-support	one forgotten job or one dropped baton	you	useless property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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:5.

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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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