Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 21
If you get lost in a shop, ask a shop worker or a parent with children for help, and never go off with someone who offers you a lift.
Who acts: you · What happens: lose, ask, not go off, offer · To what, where: you, shop, shop worker, lift
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 lost | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ask | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shop | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shop | det |
| 7 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 worker | det |
| 11 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worker | compound |
| 12 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 parent | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 parent | det |
| 15 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worker | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 parent | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 help | case |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 go | advmod |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 go | compound:prt |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 someone | case |
| 26 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 offers | nsubj |
| 28 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 someone | acl:relcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 offers | iobj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lift | det |
| 31 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offers | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | you | a shop | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a shop worker or a parent with children | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not go off | infinitive | you not said here | with someone | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer | present | a lift | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal lift=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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:21.
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): no change. 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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