Keeping promises, sentence 1
Ava promised to help her little brother build his Lego castle on Saturday morning, then her mate texts "cinema??? 10am"; a more fun plan is not a reason to break her word, though she can honestly ask him to swap days.
Who acts: Ava, little brother, mate, fun plan · What happens: promise, help, build, text, not be, break · To what, where: little brother, Lego castle, cinema, reason, word, him
This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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 (Ava, little brother, mate, fun plan), 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 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 help | mark |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | obj |
| 8 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 castle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Lego | Lego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 castle | compound |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 build | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 morning | compound |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 build | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cinema | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 texts | advmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mate | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 texts | nsubj |
| 19 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 cinema | punct |
| 21 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 texts | obj |
| 22 | ??? | ??? | PUNCT | _ | 23 10 | punct |
| 23 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 am | nummod |
| 24 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cinema | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 cinema | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 reason | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 plan | det |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 fun | advmod |
| 29 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 plan | amod |
| 30 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reason | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 reason | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 reason | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 reason | det |
| 34 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 break | mark |
| 36 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 reason | acl |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 word | nmod:poss |
| 38 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 break | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 ask | punct |
| 40 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 44 ask | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 ask | nsubj |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 ask | aux |
| 43 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 44 ask | advmod |
| 44 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 break | conj |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 ask | iobj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 swap | mark |
| 47 | swap | swap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 ask | xcomp |
| 48 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 swap | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Ava | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ava not said here | Ava's little brother | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build not said to happen | infinitive | Ava's little brother not said here | his Lego castle | morning | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product | |||
| 4 | text | present | Ava's mate | cinema 10 am | then | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not is a | present | a fun plan | a reason | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | break | to-infinitive | Ava not said here | Ava's word | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | can | mate | him = he | honestly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 8 | swap not said to happen | to-infinitive | mate not said here | day | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | word | Ava | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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