--- title: If you are lost in a shop, a worker at the counter or wearing a name… — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics description: If you are lost in a shop, a worker at the counter or wearing a name badge can help you. Who acts: worker. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/17/) [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/) / [Trusted adults and asking for help](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/) / 17 # Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 17 If you are lost in a shop, a worker at the counter or wearing a name badge can help you. **Who acts:** worker · **What happens:** lose, wear, help · **To what, where:** you, shop, name badge 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 (worker), 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:17 # text = If you are lost in a shop, a worker at the counter or wearing a name badge can help you. # 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 ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 counter counter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 wearing wear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 badge badge NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | you | | a shop | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **wear** | gerund | | a name badge | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent badge=Source | | 3 | **help** | can | a worker at the counter | | you | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | 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:17`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/16/) - next →: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/)