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title: Some promises do not count: a promise forced by a threat, or one tha… — Promises · tree and pragmatics
description: Some promises do not count: a promise forced by a threat, or one that controls who you can be friends with. Who acts: promises, 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 8

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Some promises do not count: a promise forced by a threat, or one that controls who you can be friends with.

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**Who acts:** promises, you · **What happens:** not count, force, control, be · **To what, where:** promise, friends

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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 (promises, 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:8
# text = Some promises do not count: a promise forced by a threat, or one that controls who you can be friends with.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	controls	control	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	ccomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | some promises | a promise |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 2 | **force** | participle |  | a promise *not said here* |  |  |  | by a threat | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **control** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | can | you | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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. **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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