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title: If something is taken or someone is unkind, children should tell the… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: If something is taken or someone is unkind, children should tell the staff, who are there to help. Who acts: someone, children, staff. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Living in a children's home, sentence 41

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If something is taken or someone is unkind, children should tell the staff, who are there to help.

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**Who acts:** someone, children, staff · **What happens:** take, be, tell, help · **To what, where:** something, staff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» 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 (someone, children, staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:41
# text = If something is taken or someone is unkind, children should tell the staff, who are there to help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 520-living-in-a-childrens-home.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | someone |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | children | the staff |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent staff=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | the staff |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | the staff *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:41`.

**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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