--- title: Unclear promises cause rows; «give» means to keep, «lend» means to g… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: Unclear promises cause rows; «give» means to keep, «lend» means to give back. Who acts: Unclear promises. A sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/36/) [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/) / [Big kids, little kids and the truth at…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/) / 36 # Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 36 Unclear promises cause rows; «give» means to keep, «lend» means to give back. **Who acts:** Unclear promises · **What happens:** cause, give, mean, keep, lend, give back · **To what, where:** rows · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (Unclear promises), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:36 # text = Unclear promises cause rows; «give» means to keep, «lend» means to give back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Unclear unclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 nsubj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 lend lend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 nsubj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present | Unclear promises | rows | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition row=Patient | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lend** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **give back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:36`. **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): R6-punct-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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