--- title: A boy in Ohio promised to keep his little brother safe at the playgr… — Promises · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio promised to keep his little brother safe at the playground and then went off with friends; his brother wandered to the road and a neighbour brought him back. Who acts: boy, brother, neighbour. 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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 (boy, brother, neighbour), 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:25 # text = A boy in Ohio promised to keep his little brother safe at the playground and then went off with friends; his brother wandered to the road and a neighbour brought him back. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | a boy in Ohio | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | boy's little brother | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | | 3 | **go off** | past | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | | | | then | with friends | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wander** | past | boy's brother | | | the road | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to road=Destination | | 5 | **bring back** | past | a neighbour | | brother | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | 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:everyday:199-promises.lesson:25`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Promises, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/24/) - next →: [Promises, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/)