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title: If you are lost, a police officer, a shop worker or a parent with ch… — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are lost, a police officer, a shop worker or a parent with children are good people to ask. Who acts: police officer. 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 17

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If you are lost, a police officer, a shop worker or a parent with children are good people to ask.

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**Who acts:** police officer · **What happens:** lose, be, ask · **To what, where:** you, good people

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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 (police officer), 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:17
# text = If you are lost, a police officer, a shop worker or a parent with children are good people to ask.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a police officer and a shop worker or a parent with children | good people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.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 ×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/).

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