--- title: To a little brother, a gran or a cat, a broken promise means waiting… — Promises to family · tree and pragmatics description: To a little brother, a gran or a cat, a broken promise means waiting, disappointment or hunger. Who acts: broken promise. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Promises to family, sentence 9 To a little brother, a gran or a cat, a broken promise means waiting, disappointment or hunger. **Who acts:** broken promise · **What happens:** break, mean · **To what, where:** waiting 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 (broken promise), 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:9 # text = To a little brother, a gran or a cat, a broken promise means waiting, disappointment or hunger. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 To to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 disappointment disappointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 21 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | a broken promise | waiting and disappointment or hunger | | | | to a little brother and a gran or a cat | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot waiting=Theme to brother=Attribute | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Promises to family, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/8/) - next →: [Promises to family, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/)