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title: If you are lost, stay inside the place, at a counter or desk where p… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are lost, stay inside the place, at a counter or desk where people work, and don't leave with anyone. Who acts: people. 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 38

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If you are lost, stay inside the place, at a counter or desk where people work, and don't leave with anyone.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** lose, stay, work, not leave · **To what, where:** you, place

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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 (people), 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:38
# text = If you are lost, stay inside the place, at a counter or desk where people work, and don't leave with anyone.
# 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
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	counter	counter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  | the place |  | at a counter or desk | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside place=Location |
| 3 | **work** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **leave** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | with anyone | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with anyone=Theme |

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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:38`.

**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. **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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