--- title: Ava promised to help her little brother build his Lego castle on Sat… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: Ava promised to help her little brother build his Lego castle on Saturday morning, then her mate texts "cinema??? 10am"; a more fun plan is not a reason to break her word, though she can honestly ask him to swap days. Who acts: Ava, little brother, mate, fun plan. 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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 (Ava, little brother, mate, fun plan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:1 # text = Ava promised to help her little brother build his Lego castle on Saturday morning, then her mate texts "cinema??? 10am"; a more fun plan is not a reason to break her word, though she can honestly ask him to swap days. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 086-keeping-promises.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 texts text VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 cinema cinema NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ??? ??? PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 23 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 am a.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 29 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 though though SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 iobj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 swap swap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 48 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Ava | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ava *not said here* | Ava's little brother | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **build** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Ava's little brother *not said here* | his Lego castle | | | morning | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product | | 4 | **text** | present | Ava's mate | cinema 10 am | | | then | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | a fun plan | a reason | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **break** | to-infinitive | Ava *not said here* | Ava's word | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | mate | | him *= he* | | | honestly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **swap** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mate *not said here* | | | | day | | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **word** | | Ava | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Keeping promises, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/0/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)