Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 1
A friend who is hurt, scared or in trouble may say «It's just a scratch», «I'm fine, honestly», «It's nothing», because they are embarrassed, don't want a fuss, or don't want to get into trouble.
Who acts: friend, they · What happens: hurt, say, be, not want, get · To what, where: friend, scratch », nothing, fuss, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult» of the language 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, they), 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 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 friend | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scared | punct |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hurt | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 trouble | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | conj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | aux |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 » | punct |
| 14 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 » | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 » | cop |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 scratch | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 scratch | det |
| 18 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 » | compound |
| 19 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fine | punct |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 fine | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 fine | nsubj |
| 23 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fine | cop |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 » | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 » | punct |
| 26 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 24 fine | advmod |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 fine | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 nothing | punct |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 nothing | punct |
| 30 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 nothing | nsubj |
| 31 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 nothing | cop |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 fine | parataxis |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 nothing | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 embarrassed | punct |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 embarrassed | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 embarrassed | cop |
| 38 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 say | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 want | punct |
| 40 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 want | aux |
| 41 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 want | advmod |
| 42 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 embarrassed | conj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 fuss | det |
| 44 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 want | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 want | punct |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 want | cc |
| 47 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 want | aux |
| 48 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 want | advmod |
| 49 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 embarrassed | conj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 get | mark |
| 51 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 want | xcomp |
| 52 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 trouble | case |
| 53 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 get | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · passive | a friend | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | may | a friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | friend | scratch » | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | a friend = friend | fine, honestly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | friend | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | they | embarrassed property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not want | present · do-support | they not said here | a fuss | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuss=Theme | ||||
| 8 | not want | present · do-support | they not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | trouble | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |
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:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2. 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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