--- title: People stop trusting someone who often breaks promises. — Promises · tree and pragmatics description: People stop trusting someone who often breaks promises. Who acts: People. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Promises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/) / 28 # Promises, sentence 28 People stop trusting someone who often breaks promises. **Who acts:** People · **What happens:** stop, trust, break · **To what, where:** someone, promises 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 (People), 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:28 # text = People stop trusting someone who often breaks promises. # 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): no change 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 trusting trust VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | People | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **trust** | gerund | People *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 3 | **break** | present | | promises | | | | often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | 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:28`. **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/). - ← previous: [Promises, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/27/) - next →: [Promises, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/)