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title: When someone might be in danger, safety comes first: say you can't h… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone might be in danger, safety comes first: say you can't help, don't point, and get an adult or call for help. Who acts: someone, safety, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 8

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When someone might be in danger, safety comes first: say you can't help, don't point, and get an adult or call for help.

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**Who acts:** someone, safety, you · **What happens:** be, come, say, not help, not point, get · **To what, where:** danger, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics 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 (someone, safety, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:8
# text = When someone might be in danger, safety comes first: say you can't help, don't point, and get an adult or call for help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | might | someone |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | safety |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **help** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **point** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **get** | infinitive |  | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus |
| 7 | **call** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |

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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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**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.

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