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title: Teachers want to help, and other pupils probably have the same quest… — Mistakes, asking for help and saying no · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers want to help, and other pupils probably have the same question. Who acts: Teachers, other pupils. A sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 9

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Teachers want to help, and other pupils probably have the same question.

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**Who acts:** Teachers, other pupils · **What happens:** want, help, have · **To what, where:** same question

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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 (Teachers, other pupils), 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:9
# text = Teachers want to help, and other pupils probably have the same question.
# 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
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Teachers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Teachers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | other pupils | the same question |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient |

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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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:9`.

**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. **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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