--- title: A promise to cover any lie is not a fair promise; you don't owe anyo… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: A promise to cover any lie is not a fair promise; you don't owe anyone silence about something serious. Who acts: promise, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (promise, you), 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:42 # text = A promise to cover any lie is not a fair promise; you don't owe anyone silence about something serious. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 5 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 owe owe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 17 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 compound _ _ 18 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 21 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | to-infinitive | a promise *not said here* | any lie | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lie=Destination | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a promise | a fair promise | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **owe** | present · do-support | you | anyone silence | | | | about something | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent silence=Theme | 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:42`. **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. 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