--- title: A promise you meant but couldn't keep because of a real emergency is… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: A promise you meant but couldn't keep because of a real emergency is not a lie, but it still needs an apology and making up for it; a promise to hide wrongdoing does not bind you at all. Who acts: you, promise. 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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 (you, promise), 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:2 # text = A promise you meant but couldn't keep because of a real emergency is not a lie, but it still needs an apology and making up for it; a promise to hide wrongdoing does not bind you at all. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 apology apology NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 wrongdoing wrongdoing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 bind bind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | past | you | a promise *not said here* | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Topic | | 2 | **not** **keep** | could | you *not said here* | a real emergency | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | a promise | a lie | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | present | promise | a apology | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot apology=Theme | | 5 | **make up** | gerund | promise *not said here* | | | | | for promise | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hide** | to-infinitive | a promise *not said here* | wrongdoing | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrongdoing=Patient | | 7 | **not** **bind** | present · do-support | a promise | you | | all | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | 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:2`. **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 ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/1/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)