--- title: If you get lost in a shop, ask a shop worker or a parent with childr… — Mistakes, asking for help and saying no · tree and pragmatics description: If you get lost in a shop, ask a shop worker or a parent with children for help, and never go off with someone who offers you a lift. Who acts: 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 (you), 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:21 # text = If you get lost in a shop, ask a shop worker or a parent with children for help, and never go off with someone who offers you a lift. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 get get 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 9 advcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 9 obj _ _ 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 12 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obl _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | you | | a shop | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | a shop worker or a parent with children | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **go off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | with someone | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **offer** | present | | a lift | you | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal lift=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:21`. **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: [Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/20/) - next →: [Standing up for yourself, nightmares a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/99-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no/)