--- title: Breaking a promise like that is not betrayal; it is help. — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: Breaking a promise like that is not betrayal; it is help. Who acts: Breaking, promise. A sentence of the lesson «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/10/) [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/) / [When not to keep a friend's secret](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/) / 10 # When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 10 Breaking a promise like that is not betrayal; it is help. **Who acts:** Breaking, promise · **What happens:** break, not be, be · **To what, where:** promise, betrayal, help This is a sentence of the lesson «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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 (Breaking, promise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.lesson:10 # text = Breaking a promise like that is not betrayal; it is help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.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 Breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 betrayal betrayal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | gerund | | a promise | | | | like that | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Breaking | betrayal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | promise | help and betrayal | | | | | tree rules | 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:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.lesson:10`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/9/) - next →: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/)