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title: Never get into a car with a stranger; running away and telling a gro… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never get into a car with a stranger; running away and telling a grown-up straight away is right, and "trust your gut" means trust the feeling that something is wrong. Who acts: you, running, means, something. A sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of
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# Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 7

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Never get into a car with a stranger; running away and telling a grown-up straight away is right, and "trust your gut" means trust the feeling that something is wrong.

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**Who acts:** you, running, means, something · **What happens:** not get, run away, tell, be, trust · **To what, where:** car, grown, gut, feeling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» 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 (you, running, means, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:7
# text = Never get into a car with a stranger; running away and telling a grown-up straight away is right, and "trust your gut" means trust the feeling that something is wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	nsubj	_	_
30	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a car |  | with a stranger | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination |
| 2 | **run away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | a grown |  |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | running |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **trust** *in a quote* | infinitive | running *not said here* | your gut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **trust** | present | means | the feeling |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present | something | the feeling *not said here* |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:7`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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