--- title: A man in a car in Ohio asked Noah, «Hey buddy, can you help me find… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics description: A man in a car in Ohio asked Noah, «Hey buddy, can you help me find my lost puppy? Who acts: man, Noah. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # A stranger's story, sentence 6 A man in a car in Ohio asked Noah, «Hey buddy, can you help me find my lost puppy? **Who acts:** man, Noah · **What happens:** ask, help, find, lose · **To what, where:** Noah, man, lost puppy · **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 (man, Noah), 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:6 # text = A man in a car in Ohio asked Noah, «Hey buddy, can you help me find my lost puppy? # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 iobj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Hey hey INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 13 buddy buddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 vocative _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:vocative 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a man in a car in Ohio | | Noah | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent noah=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **help** *in a quote* | can | Noah | a man in a car in Ohio *= man* | | | | buddy *vocative* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **find** *in a quote* | infinitive | a man in a car in Ohio *= man* *not said here* | my lost puppy | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Topic | | 4 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/5/) - next →: [A stranger's story, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/)