--- title: Asking for help is a strength: teachers want you to ask, and if you… — Mistakes, asking for help and saying no · tree and pragmatics description: Asking for help is a strength: teachers want you to ask, and if you need to talk to someone privately there are free children's helplines with trained people who listen in confidence. Who acts: Asking, teachers, you, free helplines. 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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 (Asking, teachers, you, free helplines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:1 # text = Asking for help is a strength: teachers want you to ask, and if you need to talk to someone privately there are free children's helplines with trained people who listen in confidence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obl _ _ 22 privately privately ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 helplines helpline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 confidence confidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Asking | a strength | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | present | teachers | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | to someone; privately *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent | | 7 | **does** | present | children's free helplines with trained people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **listen** | present | trained people | | | | | in confidence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in confidence=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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. 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