--- title: Adults who need help usually ask other adults, not children. — Your uh-oh feeling · tree and pragmatics description: Adults who need help usually ask other adults, not children. Who acts: Adults. A sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Your uh-oh feeling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/) / 13 # Your uh-oh feeling, sentence 13 Adults who need help usually ask other adults, not children. **Who acts:** Adults · **What happens:** need, ask · **To what, where:** help, other adults This is a sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» 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 (Adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:13 # text = Adults who need help usually ask other adults, not children. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 019-uh-oh-feeling.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): no change 1 Adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Adults | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Adults | | other adults and children | | | usually *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | 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. **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:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Your uh-oh feeling, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/12/) - next →: [Your uh-oh feeling, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/19-uh-oh-feeling/)