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title: Reminders, like a note or an alarm, help people keep promises when t… — Promises to family · tree and pragmatics
description: Reminders, like a note or an alarm, help people keep promises when they are forgetful. Who acts: Reminders, people. 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.
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# Promises to family, sentence 22

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Reminders, like a note or an alarm, help people keep promises when they are forgetful.

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**Who acts:** Reminders, people · **What happens:** help, keep, be · **To what, where:** people, promises

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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 (Reminders, people), 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:22
# text = Reminders, like a note or an alarm, help people keep promises when they are forgetful.
# 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): no change
1	Reminders	reminder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **help** | present | Reminders like a note or a alarm | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | people *not said here* | promises |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | forgetful *property* | 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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:22`.

**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/).

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