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title: A prosthetic arm or leg is a tool that helps someone, like glasses,… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: A prosthetic arm or leg is a tool that helps someone, like glasses, so do not stare. Who acts: prosthetic arm, tool. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 22

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A prosthetic arm or leg is a tool that helps someone, like glasses, so do not stare.

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**Who acts:** prosthetic arm, tool · **What happens:** be, help, not stare · **To what, where:** tool, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 (prosthetic arm, tool), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:22
# text = A prosthetic arm or leg is a tool that helps someone, like glasses, so do not stare.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 227-older-people-and-disabilities.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	prosthetic	prosthetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	stare	stare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | a prosthetic arm or leg | a tool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | a tool |  | someone |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **stare** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:22`.

**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): R7-rel-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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