--- title: If you cannot solve a problem, or someone is getting hurt, you ask a… — Solving disagreements calmly · tree and pragmatics description: If you cannot solve a problem, or someone is getting hurt, you ask an adult to help. Who acts: you, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Solving disagreements calmly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/) / 15 # Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 15 If you cannot solve a problem, or someone is getting hurt, you ask an adult to help. **Who acts:** you, someone · **What happens:** not solve, get, ask, help · **To what, where:** problem, adult This is a sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» 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 (you, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:15 # text = If you cannot solve a problem, or someone is getting hurt, you ask an adult to help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 054-solving-disagreements-calmly.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 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 solve solve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 13 hurt hurt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl 21 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **solve** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | a problem | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | | 2 | **get** | present · progressive | someone | | | | | hurt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:15`. **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. **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: [Solving disagreements calmly, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/14/) - next →: [Solving disagreements calmly, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/)