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title: A girl in a big shopping centre in Sydney got separated from her dad… — Finding your way with landmarks · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in a big shopping centre in Sydney got separated from her dad; she remembered they had parked by the red lion statue and asked a shop worker to take her there. Who acts: girl, houses, shop worker. A sentence of the lesson «Finding your way with landmarks» of the everyday course of Mova's prim
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# Finding your way with landmarks, sentence 6

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A girl in a big shopping centre in Sydney got separated from her dad; she remembered they had parked by the red lion statue and asked a shop worker to take her there.

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**Who acts:** girl, houses, shop worker · **What happens:** get, separate, remember, park, ask, take · **To what, where:** shop worker, girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding your way with landmarks» 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 (girl, houses, shop worker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:016-landmarks.lesson:6
# text = A girl in a big shopping centre in Sydney got separated from her dad; she remembered they had parked by the red lion statue and asked a shop worker to take her there.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 016-landmarks.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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advcl
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **get** | past | a girl in a big shopping centre in Sydney |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **separate** | participle | a girl in a big shopping centre in Sydney *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from girl's dad | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from dad=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **remember** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **park** | past · perfect | houses *= house* |  |  |  |  | by the red lion statue | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by statue=Destination |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | girl *not said here* | a shop worker |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a shop worker *not said here* |  | girl | there |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

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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 ×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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