--- title: Will went to the park instead of helping Dad wash the car; he said s… — Promises to family · tree and pragmatics description: Will went to the park instead of helping Dad wash the car; he said sorry and helped the next week. Who acts: Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/12/) [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 to family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/) / 12 # Promises to family, sentence 12 Will went to the park instead of helping Dad wash the car; he said sorry and helped the next week. **Who acts:** Dad · **What happens:** go, help, wash, say · **To what, where:** park, Dad, car · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:12 # text = Will went to the park instead of helping Dad wash the car; he said sorry and helped the next week. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 2 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 went go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 8 mark _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 9 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | future | | | | the park | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to park=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **help** | gerund | | Dad | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dad=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **wash** | infinitive | Dad *not said here* | the car | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Dad | | | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | past | Dad *not said here* | | | | week | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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