--- title: Being reliable means doing what you said you would, even when you no… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Being reliable means doing what you said you would, even when you no longer feel like it; people trust those who keep their word. Who acts: you, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:5 # text = Being reliable means doing what you said you would, even when you no longer feel like it; people trust those who keep their word. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 reliable reliable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 csubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 no no ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 16 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 obj _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | reliable *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | you | | | | | like love; long *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like it=Theme | | 6 | **trust** | present | people | those | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 7 | **keep** | present | | people's word | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 8 | **word** | | people | | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.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): R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Being a good grown-up, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/4/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)