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title: Asking for help early makes most problems easier to fix. — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking for help early makes most problems easier to fix. Who acts: Asking. A sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 11

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Asking for help early makes most problems easier to fix.

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**Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, make, fix · **To what, where:** most problems

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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 (Asking), 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:11
# text = Asking for help early makes most problems easier to fix.
# 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	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
7	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for help; early *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | Asking | most problems |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset problem=Product |
| 3 | **fix** | to-infinitive | Asking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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