--- title: If one adult does not help, a child should tell another adult until… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: If one adult does not help, a child should tell another adult until someone does. Who acts: one adult, child, someone. 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/24/) [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/) / 24 # Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 24 If one adult does not help, a child should tell another adult until someone does. **Who acts:** one adult, child, someone · **What happens:** not help, tell, do · **To what, where:** adult · **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 (one adult, child, someone), 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:24 # text = If one adult does not help, a child should tell another adult until someone does. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 until until SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ _ 16 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | one adult | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | a child | | another adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 3 | **do** | present | someone | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «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:24`. **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/). - ← previous: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/23/) - next →: [Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and t…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/)