--- title: Next time, find a station worker to help her.» And in Sydney a lady… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics description: Next time, find a station worker to help her.» And in Sydney a lady asked Kai to help find her dog. Who acts: you, lady. A sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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/446-a-strangers-story/27/) [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/) / [A stranger's story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/) / 27 # A stranger's story, sentence 27 Next time, find a station worker to help her.» And in Sydney a lady asked Kai to help find her dog. **Who acts:** you, lady · **What happens:** find, help, ask · **To what, where:** station worker, woman, Kai, Sydney, dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (you, lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:27 # text = Next time, find a station worker to help her.» And in Sydney a lady asked Kai to help find her dog. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 446-a-strangers-story.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 13 And and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 iobj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | a station worker | | | time | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Topic | | 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a station worker *not said here* | woman | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | a lady | | Kai | Sydney | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent kai=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **help** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a lady *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **find** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | a lady *not said here* | woman's dog | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | 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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:27`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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: [A stranger's story, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/26/) - next →: [A stranger's story, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/)