--- title: If you are lost in a crowd and there is no meeting point, stay where… — Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaura… · tree and pragmatics description: If you are lost in a crowd and there is no meeting point, stay where you are and ask a police officer or a steward (a helper in a bright vest at the event). Who acts: meeting point, 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 (meeting point, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:18 # text = If you are lost in a crowd and there is no meeting point, stay where you are and ask a police officer or a steward (a helper in a bright vest at the event). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.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 ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 10 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 12 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 15 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advcl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 steward steward NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 helper helper NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 vest vest NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | you | | a crowd | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **be** | present | no meeting point | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a police officer or a steward | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent officer=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:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:18`. **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 ×2. **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: [Good manners and safety in town: shops…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/17/) - next →: [Good manners and safety in town: shops…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/)