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title: Adults who need help should ask other adults, not children. — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics
description: Adults who need help should ask other adults, not children. Who acts: Adults. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tricky people» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Strangers and tricky people, sentence 11

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Adults who need help should ask other adults, not children.

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**Who acts:** Adults · **What happens:** need, ask · **To what, where:** help, other adults

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tricky people» 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 (Adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:11
# text = Adults who need help should ask other adults, not children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 058-strangers-and-tricky-people.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): no change
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	.	.	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 | **need** | present | Adults | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | Adults |  | other adults and children |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.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): no change. **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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