--- title: A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe and listens to you. — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics description: A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe and listens to you. Who acts: trusted adult. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 7 A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe and listens to you. **Who acts:** trusted adult · **What happens:** trust, be, keep, listen · **To what, where:** grown, you 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 adult), 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:7 # text = A trusted adult is a grown-up who keeps you safe and listens to 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 listens listen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **is a** | present | a trusted adult | a grown | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present | | you | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **listen** | present | | | you | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme | 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:7`. **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, R6-punct-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/6/) - next →: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/)