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title: The office staff help when you are late, hurt, ill or need to phone… — Questions, group work and the adults at school · tree and pragmatics
description: The office staff help when you are late, hurt, ill or need to phone home, and the nurse or first aider helps when you are hurt or ill. Who acts: office staff, you, nurse. A sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 15

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The office staff help when you are late, hurt, ill or need to phone home, and the nurse or first aider helps when you are hurt or ill.

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**Who acts:** office staff, you, nurse · **What happens:** help, be, need, phone, hurt · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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 (office staff, you, nurse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:15
# text = The office staff help when you are late, hurt, ill or need to phone home, and the nurse or first aider helps when you are hurt or ill.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
10	hurt	hurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	phone	phone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	aider	aider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **help** | present | the office staff |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **phone** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **help** | present | the nurse or first aider |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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