--- title: A promise is a real duty: only a stronger duty, like helping someone… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: A promise is a real duty: only a stronger duty, like helping someone who is hurt, can outweigh it, not a better offer. Who acts: promise, stronger duty. 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 e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Keeping promises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/) / 6 # Keeping promises, sentence 6 A promise is a real duty: only a stronger duty, like helping someone who is hurt, can outweigh it, not a better offer. **Who acts:** promise, stronger duty · **What happens:** be, help, hurt, outweigh · **To what, where:** real duty, someone, promise 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: who acts (promise, stronger duty), 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:6 # text = A promise is a real duty: only a stronger duty, like helping someone who is hurt, can outweigh it, not a better offer. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 outweigh outweigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a promise | a real duty | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | gerund | a stronger duty *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | | 3 | **hurt** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **outweigh** | can | a stronger duty | promise | | | | a better offer *obl* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | 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:6`. **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): 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/5/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)