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title: Staying calm in a crisis lets you do something useful, such as fetch… — Lily, the calm «princess» · tree and pragmatics
description: Staying calm in a crisis lets you do something useful, such as fetching a teacher. Who acts: Staying, you. A sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 21

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Staying calm in a crisis lets you do something useful, such as fetching a teacher.

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**Who acts:** Staying, you · **What happens:** stay, let, do, fetch · **To what, where:** crisis, you, something, teacher

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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 (Staying, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:21
# text = Staying calm in a crisis lets you do something useful, such as fetching a teacher.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 386-lily-the-calm-princess.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	Staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	fetching	fetch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | gerund |  |  |  | a crisis |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crisis=Location |
| 2 | **let** | present | Staying | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fetch** | gerund | you *not said here* | a teacher |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:21`.

**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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