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title: Safe people to ask for help when lost are workers in uniform, staff… — What to do if you are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Safe people to ask for help when lost are workers in uniform, staff with name badges and parents with children. Who acts: Safe people. 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 every clause.
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# What to do if you are lost, sentence 21

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Safe people to ask for help when lost are workers in uniform, staff with name badges and parents with children.

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**Who acts:** Safe people · **What happens:** ask, lose, be · **To what, where:** workers, uniform

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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 (Safe people), 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:21
# text = Safe people to ask for help when lost are workers in uniform, staff with name badges and parents 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	badges	badge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Safe people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** *not said to happen* | participle | Safe people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Safe people | workers and staff with name badges and parents with children |  | uniform |  |  | tree rules |

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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: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): R6-punct-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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