When the police come, sentence 27
Stay at a safe distance from a fight; your job is to call for help, not to step in.
Who acts: you, job, your · What happens: stay, be, not step in, job
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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 (you, job, your), 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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 distance | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 distance | det |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 distance | amod |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stay | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 fight | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fight | det |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distance | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 job | nmod:poss |
| 11 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 call | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 call | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 call | mark |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stay | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 help | case |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 call | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 step | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 step | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 step | mark |
| 20 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 call | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 step | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | at a safe distance from a fight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | your job | for help; call property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not step in | to-infinitive | your job not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | job | your | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:27.
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, 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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