Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 18
A promise creates a duty; breaking it just because something more fun came along lets the other person down.
Who acts: promise, something · What happens: create, break, come along, let down · To what, where: duty, other person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» of the religion ethics 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 (promise, something), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 promise | det |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creates | nsubj |
| 3 | creates | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 duty | det |
| 5 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creates | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 breaking | punct |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 lets | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 breaking | obj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 came | nsubj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 fun | advmod |
| 13 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 something | amod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 breaking | advcl |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 creates | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 person | amod |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lets | obj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 lets | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creates | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | present | a promise | a duty | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Result | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | duty | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come along | past | something | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let down | present | the other person | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
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:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:18.
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): 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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