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title: Helping in the kitchen is useful, but ask an adult for help with sha… — Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair… · tree and pragmatics
description: Helping in the kitchen is useful, but ask an adult for help with sharp knives and very hot water. Who acts: Helping. A sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play, sentence 11

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Helping in the kitchen is useful, but ask an adult for help with sharp knives and very hot water.

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**Who acts:** Helping · **What happens:** help, be, ask · **To what, where:** kitchen, adult

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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 (Helping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:11
# text = Helping in the kitchen is useful, but ask an adult for help with sharp knives and very hot water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.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	Helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | gerund |  |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Helping |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Helping *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  | for help with sharp knives and hot water | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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