--- title: Guilt after letting someone down is the conscience pointing at what… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Guilt after letting someone down is the conscience pointing at what matters; it usually fades into a lesson once you try to put things right. Who acts: Guilt, conscience pointing, you. 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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 (Guilt, conscience pointing, 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:6 # text = Guilt after letting someone down is the conscience pointing at what matters; it usually fades into a lesson once you try to put things right. # 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 1 Guilt guilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 after after SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 3 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 conscience conscience NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 nsubj _ _ 12 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 usually usually ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 once once SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 right right ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let down** | gerund | Guilt *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Guilt | conscience pointing | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **matter** | present | conscience pointing | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **fade** | present | guilt | | | a lesson | | usually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **try** | present | you | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | things | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | 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:6`. **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. **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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