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title: Looking out for each other means noticing too: if an elderly neighbo… — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking out for each other means noticing too: if an elderly neighbour who lives alone has not been seen for a while, telling a grown-up can bring help to someone who has fallen. Who acts: Looking, elderly neighbour, telling. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of 
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# Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 2

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Looking out for each other means noticing too: if an elderly neighbour who lives alone has not been seen for a while, telling a grown-up can bring help to someone who has fallen.

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**Who acts:** Looking, elderly neighbour, telling · **What happens:** look out, means, notice, live, not see, tell · **To what, where:** elderly neighbour, grown up, help, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday 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 (Looking, elderly neighbour, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:2
# text = Looking out for each other means noticing too: if an elderly neighbour who lives alone has not been seen for a while, telling a grown-up can bring help to someone who has fallen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
6	means	means	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	csubj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
29	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
32	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obl	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **look out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for each other | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for other=Theme |
| 2 | **means** | present | Looking |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **notice** | gerund | Looking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **live** | present | a elderly neighbour |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive |  | a elderly neighbour |  |  | while |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | a grown up |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient |
| 7 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bring** | can | telling | help | someone |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent help=Theme to someone=Destination |
| 9 | **fall** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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