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title: Telling a trusted adult, such as a parent, a teacher, a school nurse… — Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling a trusted adult, such as a parent, a teacher, a school nurse or a counsellor, is the step that opens most other help. Who acts: Telling, step. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 13

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Telling a trusted adult, such as a parent, a teacher, a school nurse or a counsellor, is the step that opens most other help.

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**Who acts:** Telling, step · **What happens:** tell, trust, be, open · **To what, where:** trusted adult, step, most other help · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» of the reflection 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 (Telling, step), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:13
# text = Telling a trusted adult, such as a parent, a teacher, a school nurse or a counsellor, is the step that opens most other help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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): R5-strong ×2
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a trusted adult and a school nurse or a counsellor |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Telling | the step |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | present | the step | most other help |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location help=Theme |

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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:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:13`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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