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title: If someone tries to grab you, yell loudly «No! — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone tries to grab you, yell loudly «No! Who acts: someone, you. 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 4

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If someone tries to grab you, yell loudly «No!

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**Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** try, grab, yell · **To what, where:** you

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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 (someone, 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:4
# text = If someone tries to grab you, yell loudly «No!
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	yell	yell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
11	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grab** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **yell** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:4`.

**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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