--- title: Trying to grab back something stolen can turn into a fight; fetching… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: Trying to grab back something stolen can turn into a fight; fetching an adult is safer. Who acts: Trying, fetching. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/26/) [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/) / 26 # Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 26 Trying to grab back something stolen can turn into a fight; fetching an adult is safer. **Who acts:** Trying, fetching · **What happens:** try, grab back, steal, turn, fetch, be · **To what, where:** something, fight, adult 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 (Trying, fetching), 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:26 # text = Trying to grab back something stolen can turn into a fight; fetching an adult is safer. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 6 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 13 fetching fetch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 parataxis _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **grab back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | something | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 3 | **steal** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | can | Trying | | | a fight | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fight=Trajectory | | 5 | **fetch** | gerund | | a adult | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | fetching | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | 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:26`. **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. **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, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/25/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)