Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 7

If a friend with diabetes looks shaky, pale and confused, tell an adult at once, because their blood sugar may be too low and they may need sugar quickly.

Who acts: friend, you, blood sugar, friends · What happens: look, tell, be, need · To what, where: adult, sugar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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 (friend, you, blood sugar, friends), 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	_	6 looks	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 diabetes	case
5	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
7	shaky	shaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looks	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pale	punct
9	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shaky	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 confused	cc
11	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shaky	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looks	punct
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 adult	det
15	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 tell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 low	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 low	mark
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sugar	nmod:poss
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sugar	compound
22	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 low	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 low	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 low	cop
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 low	advmod
26	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tell	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 need	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 need	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 need	aux
30	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 low	conj
31	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 need	obj
32	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	30 need	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look a condition, not said to happen	present	a friend with diabetes			shaky property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	is	may	friends's blood sugar			low property	tree rules
4	need	may	friends = friend	sugar		quickly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sugar=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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.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): R8-pos-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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