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title: When an adult seems unsafe, move away and tell a trusted adult inste… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: When an adult seems unsafe, move away and tell a trusted adult instead of trying to fix it yourself. Who acts: adult, you. A sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading faces and voices, sentence 19

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When an adult seems unsafe, move away and tell a trusted adult instead of trying to fix it yourself.

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**Who acts:** adult, you · **What happens:** seem, move away, tell, trust, try, fix · **To what, where:** trusted adult, skin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» 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 (adult, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:19
# text = When an adult seems unsafe, move away and tell a trusted adult instead of trying to fix it yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 014-faces-and-voices.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **seem** | present | a adult |  |  |  |  | unsafe *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **try** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | skin |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:19`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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