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title: Being trusted with a job, like looking after younger children, often… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics
description: Being trusted with a job, like looking after younger children, often helps a child behave well. Who acts: child. A sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jake and the head teacher, sentence 19

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Being trusted with a job, like looking after younger children, often helps a child behave well.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** trust, look, help, behave

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:19
# text = Being trusted with a job, like looking after younger children, often helps a child behave well.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	csubj:pass	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **trust** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with a job | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with job=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  | after younger children |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **behave** | infinitive | a child |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): no change. **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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