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title: If the first adult you tell does not help, keep telling other truste… — Your uh-oh feeling · tree and pragmatics
description: If the first adult you tell does not help, keep telling other trusted adults until someone does. Who acts: you, first adult, someone. 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.
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# Your uh-oh feeling, sentence 18

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If the first adult you tell does not help, keep telling other trusted adults until someone does.

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**Who acts:** you, first adult, someone · **What happens:** tell, not help, keep, trust, do · **To what, where:** first adult, other trusted adults · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, first adult, someone), 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:18
# text = If the first adult you tell does not help, keep telling other trusted adults until someone does.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | the first adult *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | the first adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  | other trusted adults |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 5 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:18`.

**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/).

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