When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 8

Promises matter even when you are tired; showing up for people is one of the biggest ways to show you care, and friendship works both ways.

Who acts: Promises, you, showing, friendship · What happens: matter, be, show up, show, work · To what, where: one, care, you, ways

This is a sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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 (Promises, you, showing, friendship), 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	Promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 matter	nsubj
2	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	even	even	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 tired	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 matter	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 showing	punct
9	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 one	csubj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 showing	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 showing	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 one	cop
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 matter	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 ways	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ways	det
17	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 ways	amod
18	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 show	mark
20	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ways	acl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 show	iobj
22	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 show	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 works	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 works	cc
25	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 works	nsubj
26	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matter	conj
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 ways	det
28	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 works	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 matter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Promises				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	you			tired property	tree rules
3	show up	gerund				for people	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	showing	one		of the biggest ways	tree rules
5	show	to-infinitive	showing not said here	care	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient care=Topic
6	work	present	friendship	both ways			vn employment-95.3 «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:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:8.

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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