--- title: When a promise is broken, people often disagree about whether it was… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: When a promise is broken, people often disagree about whether it was a lie or a plan that failed; both happen. Who acts: people, election, plan, both. 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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 (people, election, plan, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:32 # text = When a promise is broken, people often disagree about whether it was a lie or a plan that failed; both happen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 about about SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 23 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present · passive | | a promise | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | often *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | election | a lie or a plan | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fail** | past | a plan | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **happen** | present | both | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:32`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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