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title: If you are lost in a forest or a park, the most important rule is to… — Lost outdoors · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are lost in a forest or a park, the most important rule is to stay where you are: a person who keeps still is found much faster than one who keeps moving. Who acts: important rule, person. A sentence of the lesson «Lost outdoors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Lost outdoors, sentence 0

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If you are lost in a forest or a park, the most important rule is to stay where you are: a person who keeps still is found much faster than one who keeps moving.

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**Who acts:** important rule, person · **What happens:** lose, be, keep, find, move · **To what, where:** you, forest, person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lost 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 (important rule, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:049-lost-outdoors.lesson:0
# text = If you are lost in a forest or a park, the most important rule is to stay where you are: a person who keeps still is found much faster than one who keeps moving.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 049-lost-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): R5-strong ×2
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	18	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  | a forest or a park |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | the important rule |  |  |  |  | stay *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | present | a person |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | present · passive |  | a person |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:049-lost-outdoors.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2. **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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