--- title: It is wise to have several trusted adults, at least one at home and… — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics description: It is wise to have several trusted adults, at least one at home and one at school; some children count five of them on the fingers of one hand, so that if one is busy or does not listen, they go to the next. Who acts: children, one. 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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 (children, one), 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:1 # text = It is wise to have several trusted adults, at least one at home and one at school; some children count five of them on the fingers of one hand, so that if one is busy or does not listen, they go to the next. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 csubj _ _ 6 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 nmod _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 33 so so SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 one one PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 advcl _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | | several trusted adults one at least at home and one school | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Patient | | 3 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **count** | present | some children | five of home | | the fingers of one hand | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **listen** | present · do-support | one *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **go** | present | children *= child* | | | the next | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to next=Initial\_Location | 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:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/0/) - next →: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/)