--- title: Scouting's founder Robert Baden-Powell made the promise central; the… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: Scouting's founder Robert Baden-Powell made the promise central; the first Scout Law (1908) said, "A Scout's honour is to be trusted." Brownies promise to do their best and help other people. Who acts: Robert, Scout Law, Brownies, Scout. 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Brownies promise to do their best and help other people. **Who acts:** Robert, Scout Law, Brownies, Scout · **What happens:** make, say, trust, promise, do, help · **To what, where:** promise, honour, best, other people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» 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 (Robert, Scout Law, Brownies, Scout), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:14 # text = Scouting's founder Robert Baden-Powell made the promise central; the first Scout Law (1908) said, "A Scout's honour is to be trusted." Brownies promise to do their best and help other people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Scouting scouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 founder founder NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Robert Robert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 Baden Baden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 flat _ _ 7 Powell Powell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 8 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 14 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 Scout scout PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 Law Law PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:appos 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 1908 1908 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 appos _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 23 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Scout scout NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 ccomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 33 Brownies brownie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 41 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Robert Scouting's founder | the promise | | | | central *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Scout Law | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **trust** *in a quote* | present · passive | | a Scout's honour | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | Brownies | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Brownies *not said here* | Brownies's best | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | | 6 | **help** | infinitive | Brownies *not said here* | | other people | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | | 7 | **honour** *in a quote* | | a Scout | | | | | | nom honour «state 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:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:14`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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