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title: But honouring someone is not the same as being forced: if Lily no lo… — Promises, memory and keeping each other safe · tree and pragmatics
description: But honouring someone is not the same as being forced: if Lily no longer wants to learn piano, her mum's wish does not trap her; she can find her own ways to remember, because love is not about forcing. Who acts: honouring, Lily, wish, love. A sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping eac
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# Promises, memory and keeping each other safe, sentence 1

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But honouring someone is not the same as being forced: if Lily no longer wants to learn piano, her mum's wish does not trap her; she can find her own ways to remember, because love is not about forcing.

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**Who acts:** honouring, Lily, wish, love, mum · **What happens:** honour, not be, force, want, learn, not trap · **To what, where:** someone, piano, Lily, own ways

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» of the religion ethics 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 (honouring, Lily, wish, love), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:1
# text = But honouring someone is not the same as being forced: if Lily no longer wants to learn piano, her mum's wish does not trap her; she can find her own ways to remember, because love is not about forcing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	honouring	honour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	trap	trap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honour** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | honouring |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **force** | gerund · passive | honouring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Lily |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* | piano |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **trap** | present · do-support | Lily's mum's wish | Lily |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 7 | **find** | can | Lily | Lily's own ways |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 8 | **remember** | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* | Lily's own ways *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **not** **force** | present · progressive | love |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **wish** |  | Lily's mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:religion-ethics:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:1`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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