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title: Police officers are people you can go to for help if you are lost or… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics
description: Police officers are people you can go to for help if you are lost or scared. Who acts: Police officers, you. A sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Police, courts and prison, sentence 4

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Police officers are people you can go to for help if you are lost or scared.

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**Who acts:** Police officers, you · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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 (Police officers, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:4
# text = Police officers are people you can go to for help if you are lost or scared.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 030-police-courts-and-prison.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): no change
1	Police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	lost	lost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Police officers | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | can | you | people *not said here* |  |  |  | for help | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | lost *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:4`.

**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): no change. **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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