Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 2

A firefighter in a mask and breathing gear may look scary, but you never hide from them in a fire; you go towards them or call out, because they have come to save you.

Who acts: firefighter, you, firefighters · What happens: look, not hide, go, call out, come, save · To what, where: fire, you

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 (firefighter, you, firefighters), 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 firefighter	det
2	firefighter	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mask	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mask	det
5	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 firefighter	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gear	cc
7	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gear	compound
8	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mask	conj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 look	aux
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hide	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 hide	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hide	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 hide	advmod
16	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hide	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hide	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	conj
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 call	cc
28	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 call	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 come	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 come	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
34	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 call	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 save	mark
36	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	xcomp
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 save	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	may	a firefighter in a mask and breathing gear			scary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not hide	present	you		a fire	from firefighters = firefighter	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from they=Beneficiary
3	go	present	you			towards firefighters = firefighter	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location
4	call out speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	present · perfect	firefighters = firefighter				tree rules
6	save	to-infinitive	firefighters = firefighter not said here	you			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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:2.

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 ×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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