--- title: Many families choose a secret family password: if someone says «Your… — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics description: Many families choose a secret family password: if someone says «Your mum sent me to pick you up» and does not know the password, you do not go, you tell a trusted adult. Who acts: Many families, someone, mum, you. 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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 (Many families, someone, mum, you), 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:3 # text = Many families choose a secret family password: if someone says «Your mum sent me to pick you up» and does not know the password, you do not go, you tell a trusted adult. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 password password NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 « « SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:iobj 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 password password NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | present | Many families | a secret family password | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent password=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **send** *in a quote* | past | Your mum | someone | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **pick up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Your mum *not said here* | you | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 5 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | someone *not said here* | the password | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer password=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **go** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 8 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/1/) - next →: [Strangers and tricky people, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/)