--- title: Forgetting a friend's birthday does not mean you don't care; saying… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Forgetting a friend's birthday does not mean you don't care; saying sorry fast and doing something special fixes most of it ("belated" means late). Who acts: Forgetting, you, saying, belated. 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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 (Forgetting, you, saying, belated), 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:15 # text = Forgetting a friend's birthday does not mean you don't care; saying sorry fast and doing something special fixes most of it ("belated" means late). # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Forgetting forget VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 15 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 16 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 19 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ _ 20 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 21 fixes fix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:PronType=Ind 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 belated belat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 30 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | gerund | | a friend's birthday | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Forgetting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 6 | **fix** | present | saying | most of birthday | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent most=Patient | | 7 | **mean** | present | belated | | | | | late *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:15`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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