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title: "It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfil it"… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics
description: "It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfil it" (Ecclesiastes 5:5). A sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keeping promises, sentence 10

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"It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfil it" (Ecclesiastes 5:5).

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**What happens:** be, not make, make, not fulfil · **To what, where:** vow, one, promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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: 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:10
# text = "It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfil it" (Ecclesiastes 5:5).
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	better	well	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Ecclesiastes	Ecclesiastes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	5:5	5:5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a vow |  |  |  | Ecclesiastes 5:5 *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vow=Product |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
| 4 | **not** **fulfil** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:086-keeping-promises.lesson:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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