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title: The secret of reliable people is to only promise what they can reall… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics
description: The secret of reliable people is to only promise what they can really do. Who acts: secret, people. A sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being a good grown-up, sentence 6

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The secret of reliable people is to only promise what they can really do.

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**Who acts:** secret, people · **What happens:** be, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life 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 (secret, 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:6
# text = The secret of reliable people is to only promise what they can really do.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	really	really	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: promise* | present | the secret of reliable people |  |  |  |  | promise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | can | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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