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title: Look for a safe adult: a police officer, a shop worker at the till o… — What to do if you are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Look for a safe adult: a police officer, a shop worker at the till or with a name badge, a security guard, or a parent with children. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# What to do if you are lost, sentence 1

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Look for a safe adult: a police officer, a shop worker at the till or with a name badge, a security guard, or a parent with children.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:1
# text = Look for a safe adult: a police officer, a shop worker at the till or with a name badge, a security guard, or a parent with children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 017-if-you-are-lost.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	badge	badge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a safe adult | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for adult=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:everyday:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:1`.

**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, 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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