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title: Then a child should tell a trusted adult, like a teacher, or call Ch… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a child should tell a trusted adult, like a teacher, or call Childline on 0800 1111 (free, in the UK), any time, day or night. Who acts: child. A sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 26

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Then a child should tell a trusted adult, like a teacher, or call Childline on 0800 1111 (free, in the UK), any time, day or night.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** tell, call · **To what, where:** trusted adult, Childline, 0800 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» 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 (child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.lesson:26
# text = Then a child should tell a trusted adult, like a teacher, or call Childline on 0800 1111 (free, in the UK), any time, day or night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	trusted	trusted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	Childline	Childline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	0800	0800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
19	1111	1111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | a child |  | a trusted adult |  | then | like a teacher | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  | Childline | 0800 | time |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent childline=Recipient |

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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:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.lesson:26`.

**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, R6-punct-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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