--- title: A firefighter in a mask and breathing gear may look scary, but you n… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: A firefighter in a mask and breathing gear may look scary, but you never hide from them in a fire; you go towards them or call out, because they have come to save you. Who acts: firefighter, you, firefighters. 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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 (firefighter, you, firefighters), 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:2 # text = A firefighter in a mask and breathing gear may look scary, but you never hide from them in a fire; you go towards them or call out, because they have come to save you. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 firefighter firefighter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mask mask NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 gear gear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 towards towards ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | may | a firefighter in a mask and breathing gear | | | | | scary *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **hide** | present | you | | | a fire | | from firefighters *= firefighter* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from they=Beneficiary | | 3 | **go** | present | you | | | | | towards firefighters *= firefighter* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | present · perfect | firefighters *= firefighter* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **save** | to-infinitive | firefighters *= firefighter* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×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: [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/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)