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title: A girl in Florida gets lost in a big shopping mall; she stays inside… — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Florida gets lost in a big shopping mall; she stays inside, goes to a shop counter and tells the worker her name and her mum's phone number, which she knows by heart, and soon her mum is on the way. Who acts: girl, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» of the e
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# Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 4

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A girl in Florida gets lost in a big shopping mall; she stays inside, goes to a shop counter and tells the worker her name and her mum's phone number, which she knows by heart, and soon her mum is on the way.

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**Who acts:** girl, mum · **What happens:** get, lose, stay, go, tell, know · **To what, where:** big shopping mall, shop counter, name, worker, phone number, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl, mum), 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:4
# text = A girl in Florida gets lost in a big shopping mall; she stays inside, goes to a shop counter and tells the worker her name and her mum's phone number, which she knows by heart, and soon her mum is on the way.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mall	mall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	counter	counter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	iobj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
49	.	.	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 | **get** | present | a girl in Florida |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lose** | participle | a girl in Florida *not said here* |  |  | a big shopping mall |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in mall=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stay** | present | girl |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | present | girl *not said here* |  |  | a shop counter |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to counter=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a girl in Florida *not said here* | girl's name and girl's mum's phone number | the worker |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient name=Topic |
| 6 | **know** | present | girl | girl's mum's phone number |  |  |  | by heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | present | girl's mum |  |  | the way |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **name** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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. **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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