--- title: Kai said «I'll get my mum to help you.» «Sure, thanks, love.» Mum he… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics description: Kai said «I'll get my mum to help you.» «Sure, thanks, love.» Mum helped, and the dog was under a bench. Who acts: Kai, mum, dog. 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/28/) [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/) / 28 # A stranger's story, sentence 28 Kai said «I'll get my mum to help you.» «Sure, thanks, love.» Mum helped, and the dog was under a bench. **Who acts:** Kai, mum, dog · **What happens:** say, get, help, be · **To what, where:** mum, you, bench · **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 (Kai, mum, dog), 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:28 # text = Kai said «I'll get my mum to help you.» «Sure, thanks, love.» Mum helped, and the dog was under a bench. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 15 Sure sure INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 22 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 under under ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kai | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | future | Kai | my mum | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my mum *not said here* | | you | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 4 | **help** | past | Mum | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | the dog | | | a bench | | | tree rules | 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:28`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/27/) - next →: [A stranger's story, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/)