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title: Trusted adults would much rather hear about a problem early than fin… — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics
description: Trusted adults would much rather hear about a problem early than find out late. Who acts: Trusted adults. 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 20

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Trusted adults would much rather hear about a problem early than find out late.

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**Who acts:** Trusted adults · **What happens:** trust, hear, find out

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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 adults), 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:20
# text = Trusted adults would much rather hear about a problem early than find out late.
# 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	Trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 | **hear** | would | Trusted adults |  |  |  |  | about a problem; early *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about problem=Stimulus |
| 3 | **find out** | infinitive | Trusted adults *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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:20`.

**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/).

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