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title: Adults who need help should ask other adults; a grown-up asking a ch… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics
description: Adults who need help should ask other adults; a grown-up asking a child to find a puppy is a warning sign. Who acts: Adults, grown. 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.
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# A stranger's story, sentence 32

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Adults who need help should ask other adults; a grown-up asking a child to find a puppy is a warning sign.

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**Who acts:** Adults, grown · **What happens:** need, ask, find, be · **To what, where:** help, other adults, child, puppy, warning sign

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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 (Adults, grown), 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:32
# text = Adults who need help should ask other adults; a grown-up asking a child to find a puppy is a warning sign.
# 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): no change
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
11	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound	_	_
14	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Adults | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | Adults |  | other adults |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | grown *not said here* |  | a child |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | grown *not said here* | a puppy |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | present | grown | a warning sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:32`.

**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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