--- title: When life changes a lot, like losing a job, the promiser should expl… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: When life changes a lot, like losing a job, the promiser should explain honestly, and the other person should try to understand; love "is not self-seeking" (1 Corinthians 13:5). Who acts: life, lot, promiser, other person. 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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 (life, lot, promiser, other person), 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:15 # text = When life changes a lot, like losing a job, the promiser should explain honestly, and the other person should try to understand; love "is not self-seeking" (1 Corinthians 13:5). # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 like like SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 promiser promiser NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 14 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 31 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 seeking seek VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 ccomp _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 36 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 Corinthians Corinthians PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 38 13:5 13:5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 flat _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | life | a lot | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lose** | gerund | a lot *not said here* | a job | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | should | the promiser | | | | | honestly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **try** | should | the other person | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **understand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the other person *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | love | | | | | seek *property* | tree rules | 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:15`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/14/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)