--- title: Sam promised his best mate Jake he'd come to his birthday, then cool… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Sam promised his best mate Jake he'd come to his birthday, then cooler kids asked him to the cinema and he went; Jake's mum texted, "Jake waited at the door for an hour," and that night Sam couldn't eat, thinking, "I'm a proper snake. Who acts: Sam, cooler kids, mum, Jake. 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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 (Sam, cooler kids, mum, Jake), 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:1 # text = Sam promised his best mate Jake he'd come to his birthday, then cooler kids asked him to the cinema and he went; Jake's mum texted, "Jake waited at the door for an hour," and that night Sam couldn't eat, thinking, "I'm a proper snake. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 Jake jake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 15 cooler cool ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cinema cinema NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 texted text VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:parataxis 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 43 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ _ 44 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl:unmarked _ _ 45 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 46 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 54 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 ccomp _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Sam | Sam's best mate | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | would | Sam | | | Sam's birthday | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to birthday=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | cooler kids | | Sam | | then | to the cinema | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **go** | past | Sam | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **text** | past | Jake's mum | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wait** *in a quote* | past | Jake | | | the door | hour | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | | 7 | **not** **eat** | could | Sam | | | | night | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Sam *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Sam | a proper snake | | | | | 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:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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