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title: An ambulance outside a house tells you someone needed help, not who… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics
description: An ambulance outside a house tells you someone needed help, not who or why; offer help, not guesses. Who acts: ambulance, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 21

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An ambulance outside a house tells you someone needed help, not who or why; offer help, not guesses.

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**Who acts:** ambulance, someone · **What happens:** tell, need, offer · **To what, where:** you, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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 (ambulance, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:21
# text = An ambulance outside a house tells you someone needed help, not who or why; offer help, not guesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	offer	offer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a ambulance outside a house |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **need** | past | someone | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | infinitive |  | help and guesses |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent help=Theme |

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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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:21`.

**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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