--- title: «I'll get my mum» is the perfect answer: it helps if the story is tr… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics description: «I'll get my mum» is the perfect answer: it helps if the story is true and protects you if it isn't. Who acts: job, story. 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/40/) [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/) / 40 # A stranger's story, sentence 40 «I'll get my mum» is the perfect answer: it helps if the story is true and protects you if it isn't. **Who acts:** job, story · **What happens:** get, be, help, protect, not be · **To what, where:** mum, perfect answer, you · **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 (job, story), 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:40 # text = «I'll get my mum» is the perfect answer: it helps if the story is true and protects you if it isn't. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 nsubj _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 csubj _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . 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 | **get** *in a quote* | future | | my mum | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | | the perfect answer | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **help** | present | job | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the story | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **protect** | present | job *not said here* | | you | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 6 | **not** **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | job | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:40`. **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): 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, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/39/) - next →: [A stranger's story, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/41/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/)