--- title: Tricky people may ask children for help, such as finding a lost pet,… — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics description: Tricky people may ask children for help, such as finding a lost pet, because children are kind and want to help; they may also offer treats or say a parent sent them. Who acts: Tricky people, children, people, parent. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tricky people, children, people, parent), 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:20 # text = Tricky people may ask children for help, such as finding a lost pet, because children are kind and want to help; they may also offer treats or say a parent sent them. # 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 Tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 11 mark _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 29 treats treat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | Tricky people | | children | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | | 2 | **find** | gerund | Tricky people *not said here* | a lost pet | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Topic | | 3 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | children | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **want** | present | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **offer** | may | people | treats | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent treat=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **send** | past | a parent | people | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Strangers and tricky people, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/19/) - next →: [Strangers and tricky people, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/)