--- title: Many people in town are there to help you: postal workers, doctors a… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: Many people in town are there to help you: postal workers, doctors and nurses, police officers and firefighters — and they can help best when you know what to tell them. Who acts: Many people, people, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many people, people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:0 # text = Many people in town are there to help you: postal workers, doctors and nurses, police officers and firefighters — and they can help best when you know what to tell them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 help help VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 postal postal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 nurses nurse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 — - PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 27 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 26 advmod _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Many people in town | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | Many people in town *not said here* | | you | | | postal workers and doctors and nurses and police officers and firefighters *obl* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 3 | **help** | can | people | | | | | well *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Shops, restaurants and libraries, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/18/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)