--- title: Calling yourself "useless" or "a terrible friend" after one mistake… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Calling yourself "useless" or "a terrible friend" after one mistake is unfair to yourself; you did a bad thing, you are not a bad person. Who acts: Calling, you. A sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/4-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Letting a friend down: broken promises…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/4-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets/) / 17 # Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 17 Calling yourself "useless" or "a terrible friend" after one mistake is unfair to yourself; you did a bad thing, you are not a bad person. **Who acts:** Calling, you · **What happens:** call, be, do, not be · **To what, where:** yourself, bad thing, bad person · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» 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 (Calling, 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:17 # text = Calling yourself "useless" or "a terrible friend" after one mistake is unfair to yourself; you did a bad thing, you are not a bad person. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 2 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | gerund | | yourself | | | | useless *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | Calling | | yourself | | after one mistake | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | past | you | a bad thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | you | a bad person | | | | | 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:17`. **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 ×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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