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title: A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe, listens to you, an… — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics
description: A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe, listens to you, and helps you when something is wrong: a parent or carer, a grandparent, a teacher, the school nurse or counsellor, a sports coach. Who acts: trusted adult, something. A sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» of t
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# Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 0

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A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe, listens to you, and helps you when something is wrong: a parent or carer, a grandparent, a teacher, the school nurse or counsellor, a sports coach.

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**Who acts:** trusted adult, something · **What happens:** trust, be, keep, listen, help · **To what, where:** grown, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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 (trusted adult, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:0
# text = A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe, listens to you, and helps you when something is wrong: a parent or carer, a grandparent, a teacher, the school nurse or counsellor, a sports coach.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
6	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
19	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc
29	carer	carer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:appos
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=39:cc
41	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	compound	_	_
45	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a trusted adult | grown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | present |  | you |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **listen** | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **is** | present | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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