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title: When helping in the kitchen, you ask a grown-up for help with sharp… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: When helping in the kitchen, you ask a grown-up for help with sharp knives and very hot water. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 15

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When helping in the kitchen, you ask a grown-up for help with sharp knives and very hot water.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** help, ask · **To what, where:** kitchen, grown

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:15
# text = When helping in the kitchen, you ask a grown-up for help with sharp knives and very hot water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.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 ×3
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
10	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | grown |  |  |  | for help with sharp knives and hot water | 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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:15`.

**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 ×3. **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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