--- title: If you see a crime, you tell an adult or the police, because they ca… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: If you see a crime, you tell an adult or the police, because they can stop it. Who acts: you, police. A sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Helpers in town and building sites](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/) / 9 # Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 9 If you see a crime, you tell an adult or the police, because they can stop it. **Who acts:** you, police · **What happens:** see, tell, stop · **To what, where:** crime, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» 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, police), 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:9 # text = If you see a crime, you tell an adult or the police, because they can stop it. # 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 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a crime | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crime=Stimulus | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | a adult or the police | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 3 | **stop** | can | police | adult | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | 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:9`. **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: [Helpers in town and building sites, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/8/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)