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title: If you forget a promise, own up, say sorry and fix it as soon as you… — Promises · tree and pragmatics
description: If you forget a promise, own up, say sorry and fix it as soon as you can. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Promises» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Promises, sentence 23

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If you forget a promise, own up, say sorry and fix it as soon as you can.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** forget, own up, say, fix · **To what, where:** promise, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises» of the everyday 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:199-promises.lesson:23
# text = If you forget a promise, own up, say sorry and fix it as soon as you can.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 199-promises.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	own	own	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **own up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fix** | infinitive |  | adult |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:everyday:199-promises.lesson:23`.

**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. **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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