--- title: Getting help is when someone is hurt, in danger, or being picked on… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: Getting help is when someone is hurt, in danger, or being picked on again and again. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 9 Getting help is when someone is hurt, in danger, or being picked on again and again. **What happens:** get, be, pick on · **To what, where:** help, someone 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: 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:9 # text = Getting help is when someone is hurt, in danger, or being picked on again and again. # 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 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 2 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 15 on on ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 16 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present · passive | | someone | | | | hurt *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pick on** | gerund · passive | | | | | again | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» | 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:9`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/8/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)