--- title: Forgetting a job is human; owning up to a teacher or grown-up quickl… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Forgetting a job is human; owning up to a teacher or grown-up quickly, and then helping fix the problem, is what responsibility means. Who acts: Forgetting, responsibility. 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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, responsibility), 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:9 # text = Forgetting a job is human; owning up to a teacher or grown-up quickly, and then helping fix the problem, is what responsibility means. # 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): no change 1 Forgetting forget VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 owning own VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 16 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 21 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 ccomp _ _ 27 responsibility responsibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 job | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | Forgetting | | | | | human *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **own up** | gerund | Forgetting *not said here* | | | | | to a teacher | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **grow up** | participle | Forgetting *not said here* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **help** | gerund | Forgetting *not said here* | | | | then | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **fix** | infinitive | Forgetting *not said here* | the problem | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 7 | **is a** | present | Forgetting *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **mean** | present | responsibility | | | | | | 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:9`. **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): no change. **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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