--- title: When he finds Lily crying behind the mobile classroom because a Stat… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: When he finds Lily crying behind the mobile classroom because a Station Road girl took her phone, he doesn't try to grab it back — he fetches the teacher on duty. Who acts: Sam, Lily, Road girl. 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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 (Sam, Lily, Road girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:17 # text = When he finds Lily crying behind the mobile classroom because a Station Road girl took her phone, he doesn't try to grab it back — he fetches the teacher on duty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 mobile mobile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 classroom classroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 — - PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fetches fetch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | Sam | Lily | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lily=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Lily *not said here* | | | the mobile classroom | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind classroom=Location | | 3 | **take** | past | a Road girl | girl's phone | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme | | 4 | **not** **try** | present · do-support | Sam | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **grab back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sam *not said here* | phone | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **fetch** | present | Sam | the teacher | | duty | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme on duty=Source | 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. 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