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title: Childline (0800 1111 in the UK) is a free helpline where children ca… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Childline (0800 1111 in the UK) is a free helpline where children can talk about any worry; other countries have their own, like Kids Help Phone in Canada and Kids Helpline in Australia. Who acts: Childline, children, other countries. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» of t
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# Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 23

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Childline (0800 1111 in the UK) is a free helpline where children can talk about any worry; other countries have their own, like Kids Help Phone in Canada and Kids Helpline in Australia.

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**Who acts:** Childline, children, other countries · **What happens:** be, talk, have · **To what, where:** free helpline, own

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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 (Childline, children, other countries), 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:23
# text = Childline (0800 1111 in the UK) is a free helpline where children can talk about any worry; other countries have their own, like Kids Help Phone in Canada and Kids Helpline 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Childline	Childline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
3	0800	0800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
4	1111	1111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	helpline	helpline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Kids	Kid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	compound	_	_
29	Help	help	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	Phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc
34	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	compound	_	_
35	Helpline	helpline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 a** | present | Childline in the UK | a free helpline |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | can | children |  |  |  |  | about any worry | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about worry=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | other countries | countries's own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Patient |

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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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:23`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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