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title: A lollipop lady or man helps children cross the road outside school;… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: A lollipop lady or man helps children cross the road outside school; «chuck» is a Northern word for «dear». Who acts: lollipop lady, children. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 36

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A lollipop lady or man helps children cross the road outside school; «chuck» is a Northern word for «dear».

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**Who acts:** lollipop lady, children · **What happens:** help, cross, be · **To what, where:** road, Northern word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (lollipop lady, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:36
# text = A lollipop lady or man helps children cross the road outside school; «chuck» is a Northern word for «dear».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	chuck	chuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	dear	dear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | a lollipop lady or man |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | infinitive | children | the road |  |  |  | outside school | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a Northern word |  |  |  | for dear | 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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:36`.

**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/).

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