--- title: An empty «I promise I'll tidy later», said just to stop someone aski… — Promises · tree and pragmatics description: An empty «I promise I'll tidy later», said just to stop someone asking, teaches people your word means nothing. Who acts: I, empty «, word, your. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Promises, sentence 4 An empty «I promise I'll tidy later», said just to stop someone asking, teaches people your word means nothing. **Who acts:** I, empty «, word, your · **What happens:** promise, tidy, say, stop, ask, teach · **To what, where:** empty «, someone, people, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, empty «, word, your), 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:4 # text = An empty «I promise I'll tidy later», said just to stop someone asking, teaches people your word means nothing. # 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 ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 tidy tidy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 9 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=other, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present | I | a empty « *not said here* | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent «=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **tidy** *in a quote* | future | I | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a empty « *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a empty « *not said here* | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a empty « *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a empty « | | people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **mean** | present | your word | nothing | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 8 | **word** | | your | | | | | | 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:everyday:199-promises.lesson:4`. **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 ×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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/3/) - next →: [Promises, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/199-promises/)