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title: When a child is missing at school, staff must treat it as an emergen… — Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted · tree and pragmatics
description: When a child is missing at school, staff must treat it as an emergency until the child is found. Who acts: child, staff. A sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 21

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When a child is missing at school, staff must treat it as an emergency until the child is found.

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**Who acts:** child, staff · **What happens:** be, treat, find · **To what, where:** school, child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 (child, staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:21
# text = When a child is missing at school, staff must treat it as an emergency until the child is found.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:aux
5	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a child |  |  | school |  | missing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **treat** | must | staff | child |  |  |  | as a emergency | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as emergency=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:21`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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