Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 9

Forgetting a job is human; owning up to a teacher or grown-up quickly, and then helping fix the problem, is what responsibility means.

Who acts: Forgetting, responsibility · What happens: forget, be, own up, grow up, help, fix · To what, where: job, problem

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, responsibility), 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	5 human	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 job	det
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forgetting	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 human	cop
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 owning	punct
7	owning	own	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 human	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 owning	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 teacher	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owning	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 grown	cc
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 owning	conj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 up	punct
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 grown	compound:prt
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 grown	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 helping	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 helping	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 helping	advmod
20	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 owning	conj
21	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 helping	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 problem	det
23	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fix	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 what	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 what	cop
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 human	ccomp
27	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 means	nsubj
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 human	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	gerund		a job			tree rules
2	is	present	Forgetting			human property	tree rules
3	own up	gerund	Forgetting not said here			to a teacher	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	grow up	participle	Forgetting not said here			quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help	gerund	Forgetting not said here		then		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	fix	infinitive	Forgetting not said here	the problem			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient
7	is a	present	Forgetting not said here				tree rules
8	mean	present	responsibility				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:9.

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): no change. 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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