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title: After any attack, telling a trusted adult is part of keeping safe. — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics
description: After any attack, telling a trusted adult is part of keeping safe. Who acts: telling, part. A sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 32

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After any attack, telling a trusted adult is part of keeping safe.

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**Who acts:** telling, part · **What happens:** tell, trust, be, keep · **To what, where:** trusted adult, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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 (telling, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:32
# text = After any attack, telling a trusted adult is part of keeping safe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.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	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | telling | part |  |  | after any attack |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund | part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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**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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:32`.

**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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