--- title: A grown-up who notices when and where fights happen can often stop t… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: A grown-up who notices when and where fights happen can often stop them by changing that time or place. Who acts: fights, grown. A sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Adults who help and adults who don't](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/) / 15 # Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 15 A grown-up who notices when and where fights happen can often stop them by changing that time or place. **Who acts:** fights, grown · **What happens:** notice, happen, stop, change · **To what, where:** fights · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (fights, grown), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:15 # text = A grown-up who notices when and where fights happen can often stop them by changing that time or place. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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): R5-strong ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 notices notice VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl:relcl 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 10 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | present | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **happen** | present | fights | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | can | grown | fights *= fight* | | | | often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality | | 4 | **change** | gerund | grown *not said here* | | | | time | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/14/) - next →: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/)