--- title: When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/5/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Bad news, protests and helping others](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/) / 5 # Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 5 When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** want, help, give, sponsor, volunteer · **To what, where:** money, charities This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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 (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:5 # text = When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 charities charity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 sponsored sponsor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 challenge challenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 19 volunteer volunteer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 . . 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 | **want** | present | people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | present | people | money | charities | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to charity=Recipient | | 4 | **sponsor** | infinitive · passive | people *not said here* | | | | | for a challenge | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: for challenge=Beneficiary | | 5 | **volunteer** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | time | | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/4/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)