--- title: Being trusted with a job by a grown-up, like walking a dog, is a big… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Being trusted with a job by a grown-up, like walking a dog, is a big deal; breaking that trust can still be fixed by going back, apologising and being reliable. Who acts: breaking. 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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 (breaking), 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:13 # text = Being trusted with a job by a grown-up, like walking a dog, is a big deal; breaking that trust can still be fixed by going back, apologising and being reliable. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 csubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 8 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 obl:agent _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=8:compound 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 csubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advcl 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 29 by by SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 back back ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 apologising apologise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:xcomp 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 cop _ _ 36 reliable reliable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** | gerund · passive | | | | | | with a job | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with job=Theme | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | gerund | | a dog | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a big deal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **break** | gerund | | that trust | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient | | 6 | **fix** | can · passive | breaking | | | | still | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 7 | **go back** | gerund | breaking *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | gerund | breaking *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | gerund | breaking *not said here* | | | | | reliable *property* | 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:13`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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