--- title: If a child is hurt in the street, a nearby adult such as a shopkeepe… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: If a child is hurt in the street, a nearby adult such as a shopkeeper can help quickly; in an emergency adults call 999 in the UK, 911 in the USA and Canada, or 000 in Australia. Who acts: nearby adult, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» of the everyday course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/22/) [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/) / [Getting help is not telling tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/) / 22 # Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 22 If a child is hurt in the street, a nearby adult such as a shopkeeper can help quickly; in an emergency adults call 999 in the UK, 911 in the USA and Canada, or 000 in Australia. **Who acts:** nearby adult, adults · **What happens:** hurt, help, call · **To what, where:** child, street, 999, emergency · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» 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 (nearby adult, adults), 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:22 # text = If a child is hurt in the street, a nearby adult such as a shopkeeper can help quickly; in an emergency adults call 999 in the UK, 911 in the USA and Canada, or 000 in Australia. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 nearby nearby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 shopkeeper shopkeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 19 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 26 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 911 911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 list _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 000 000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 list _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | a child | | the street | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **help** | can | a nearby adult such a shopkeeper | | | | | quickly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present | adults | 999 | | a emergency | | in the UK | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:22`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Getting help is not telling tales, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/21/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)