--- title: Asking for help early is always better than going hungry or worrying… — Marks, group work, help at school and learning n… · tree and pragmatics description: Asking for help early is always better than going hungry or worrying alone. Who acts: Asking. A sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/7/) [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/) / [Marks, group work, help at school and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/) / 7 # Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 7 Asking for help early is always better than going hungry or worrying alone. **Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, be, go, worry This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 (Asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:7 # text = Asking for help early is always better than going hungry or worrying alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.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 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 7 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 worrying worry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 13 alone alone ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for help; early *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Asking | | | | | always, good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | gerund | Asking *not said here* | | | | | hungry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **worry** | gerund | Asking *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:7`. **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: [Marks, group work, help at school and…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/6/) - next →: [Marks, group work, help at school and…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/)