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title: Jayden's dad promised to come to the football final and didn't turn… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jayden's dad promised to come to the football final and didn't turn up again, no call; Jayden scanned the sideline the whole match, played badly and angry, and that night thought, "He never comes. Who acts: dad, Jayden, night. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, 
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 1

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Jayden's dad promised to come to the football final and didn't turn up again, no call; Jayden scanned the sideline the whole match, played badly and angry, and that night thought, "He never comes.

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**Who acts:** dad, Jayden, night · **What happens:** promise, come, not turn up, scan, play, think · **To what, where:** football final, sideline · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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 (dad, Jayden, night), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:1
# text = Jayden's dad promised to come to the football final and didn't turn up again, no call; Jayden scanned the sideline the whole match, played badly and angry, and that night thought, "He never comes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
10	final	final	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	scanned	scan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sideline	sideline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
40	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Jayden's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jayden's dad *not said here* | the football final |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **turn up** | past · do-support | Jayden's dad *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **scan** | past | Jayden | the sideline |  |  |  | the whole match *obl:unmarked* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sideline=Theme |
| 5 | **play** | past | Jayden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | that night |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | present | dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:1`.

**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 ×5, 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/).

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