What to do if you are lost, sentence 7

A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask a worker or a mum with children instead.

Who acts: man, boy · What happens: lose, go, say, help, take, learn · To what, where: boy, festival, security point, worker · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» 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 (man, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 festival	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 festival	det
9	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 man	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
21	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	25 take	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 point	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 point	det
29	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 point	compound
30	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 learnt	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 learnt	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boy	det
34	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 learnt	nsubj
35	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 ask	mark
37	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 learnt	xcomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 worker	det
39	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ask	obj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 mum	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 mum	det
42	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 worker	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 children	case
44	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 mum	nmod
45	instead	instead	ADV	_	37 ask	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		a boy in Ireland	a festival		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	go	past				with a man	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	past	a man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	help	would	boy				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	take	past · do-support	the man	boy	a security point	luckily property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to point=Destination
6	learn	past	the boy				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	a worker or a mum with children		instead property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient

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, 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:017-if-you-are-lost.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. 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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