Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 0

Many people in town are there to help you: postal workers, doctors and nurses, police officers and firefighters — and they can help best when you know what to tell them.

Who acts: Many people, people, you · What happens: be, help, know, tell · To what, where: you, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» 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 (Many people, people, you), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 town	case
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 there	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 workers	punct
11	postal	postal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 workers	amod
12	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 help	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 doctors	punct
14	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 workers	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nurses	cc
16	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 workers	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 officers	punct
18	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 officers	compound
19	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 workers	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 firefighters	cc
21	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 officers	conj
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 help	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 help	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 help	aux
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 help	conj
27	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 help	advmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 know	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 help	advcl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 know	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 what	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Many people in town		there property	tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive	Many people in town not said here	you	postal workers and doctors and nurses and police officers and firefighters obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
3	help	can	people		well property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-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.

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