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title: Community police officers visit schools to help children stay safe,… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics
description: Community police officers visit schools to help children stay safe, not only to catch people. Who acts: police officers, children. 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 32

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Community police officers visit schools to help children stay safe, not only to catch people.

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**Who acts:** police officers, children · **What happens:** visit, help, stay, not catch · **To what, where:** schools, children, people

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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 (police officers, children), 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:32
# text = Community police officers visit schools to help children stay safe, not only to catch people.
# 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	Community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **visit** | present | police officers | schools |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | police officers *not said here* | children |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **catch** | to-infinitive | police officers *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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**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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