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title: Helping with the washing up or loading the dishwasher is a real help… — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Helping with the washing up or loading the dishwasher is a real help at home, but sharp knives and very hot water can hurt, so ask a grown-up to deal with those. Who acts: Helping, sharp knives. A sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing
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# Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed, sentence 0

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Helping with the washing up or loading the dishwasher is a real help at home, but sharp knives and very hot water can hurt, so ask a grown-up to deal with those.

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**Who acts:** Helping, sharp knives · **What happens:** help up, load, be, hurt, ask, deal · **To what, where:** dishwasher, real help, home, grown

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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, sharp knives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:0
# text = Helping with the washing up or loading the dishwasher is a real help at home, but sharp knives and very hot water can hurt, so ask a grown-up to deal with those.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	loading	load	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dishwasher	dishwasher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=25:punct
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
30	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **help up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the washing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with washing=Theme |
| 2 | **load** | gerund |  | the dishwasher |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dishwasher=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Helping | a real help |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurt** | can | sharp knives and hot water |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | sharp knives and hot water *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 6 | **deal** | to-infinitive | sharp knives and hot water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with those | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with that=Theme |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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