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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 (Letting, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:0 # text = Letting someone down leaves a special kind of sting: you replay the moment, picture their face, and call yourself names in the dark. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 replay replay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **let down** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | present | Letting | a special kind of sting | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | | 3 | **replay** | present | you | | | | moment | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **picture** | infinitive | you *not said here* | their face | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme | | 5 | **call** | present | you *not said here* | yourself | | the dark | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme name=Result | 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:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, 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. 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