--- title: Asking for help is a grown-up skill; people think better of someone… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Asking for help is a grown-up skill; people think better of someone who asks than of someone who hides a problem until it explodes. Who acts: Asking, people, problem. 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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 (Asking, people, problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:9 # text = Asking for help is a grown-up skill; people think better of someone who asks than of someone who hides a problem until it explodes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 040-being-a-good-grown-up.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 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 9 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 ccomp _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obl _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obl _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 explodes explode VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Asking | a grown skill | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | | | | | than someone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hide** | present | | a problem | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 7 | **explode** | present | problem | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:9`. **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: [Being a good grown-up, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/8/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)