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title: Example: a girl lost in a big shop in Melbourne walks to the nearest… — What to do if you are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: a girl lost in a big shop in Melbourne walks to the nearest checkout, tells the worker her name and her mum's phone number, and waits there. Who acts: girl. 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
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# What to do if you are lost, sentence 5

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Example: a girl lost in a big shop in Melbourne walks to the nearest checkout, tells the worker her name and her mum's phone number, and waits there.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** lose, walk, tell, wait, name · **To what, where:** girl, big shop, worker · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl), 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:5
# text = Example: a girl lost in a big shop in Melbourne walks to the nearest checkout, tells the worker her name and her mum's phone number, and waits there.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	checkout	checkout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
18	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **lose** | participle |  | a girl *not said here* |  | a big shop in Melbourne |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in shop=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk** | present | a girl |  |  |  |  | to the nearest checkout *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to checkout=Result |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a girl *not said here* |  | the worker |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient |
| 4 | **wait** | present | a girl *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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