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title: Three loud blasts on a whistle, then a pause, again and again, is a… — Hiking and the outdoors · tree and pragmatics
description: Three loud blasts on a whistle, then a pause, again and again, is a signal that means you need help. Who acts: Three loud blasts, signal, you. A sentence of the lesson «Hiking and the outdoors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Hiking and the outdoors, sentence 11

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Three loud blasts on a whistle, then a pause, again and again, is a signal that means you need help.

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**Who acts:** Three loud blasts, signal, you · **What happens:** be, mean, need · **To what, where:** signal, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiking and the outdoors» 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 (Three loud blasts, signal, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.lesson:11
# text = Three loud blasts on a whistle, then a pause, again and again, is a signal that means you need help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.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	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blasts	blast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **is a** | present | Three loud blasts on a whistle and a pause | a signal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a signal |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **need** | present | you | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.lesson:11`.

**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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