--- title: If you are lost in a town or a shop, you ask a shop worker, a police… — Lost outdoors · tree and pragmatics description: If you are lost in a town or a shop, you ask a shop worker, a police officer, a worker in uniform such as a lifeguard, or a parent with children for help. Who acts: you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:17 # text = If you are lost in a town or a shop, you ask a shop worker, a police officer, a worker in uniform such as a lifeguard, or a parent with children for help. # 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 ×3 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 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 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 town town 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 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 uniform uniform NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 29 case _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 town or a shop | | such a lifeguard; a worker in uniform *obl* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | a shop worker and a police officer | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient | 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:049-lost-outdoors.lesson:17`. **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 ×3. **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: [Lost outdoors, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/16/) - next →: [Lost outdoors, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/)