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title: A person lying still after a fight may be seriously hurt and needs a… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics
description: A person lying still after a fight may be seriously hurt and needs an ambulance quickly. Who acts: person. A sentence of the lesson «When the police come» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the police come, sentence 25

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A person lying still after a fight may be seriously hurt and needs an ambulance quickly.

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**Who acts:** person · **What happens:** lie, hurt, need · **To what, where:** person, ambulance

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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 (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:25
# text = A person lying still after a fight may be seriously hurt and needs an ambulance quickly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 384-when-the-police-come.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund | a person *not said here* |  |  |  | after a fight; still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | may · passive |  | a person |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present |  | a ambulance |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ambulance=Theme |

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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:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:25`.

**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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