Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 11
If a friend is quiet, eats alone and doesn't want to play for weeks, «I'm fine, it's nothing» may not be true; be kind, stay near, and tell a teacher you trust.
Who acts: friend, I, blood, you · What happens: be, eat, not want, play, not be, stay · To what, where: nothing, teacher · 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, I, blood, 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 | _ | 5 quiet | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quiet | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | cop |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stay | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eats | punct |
| 7 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | conj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 eats | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 want | cc |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 want | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 want | advmod |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quiet | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 play | mark |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 want | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 weeks | case |
| 16 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 play | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fine | punct |
| 18 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 21 fine | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 fine | nsubj |
| 20 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fine | cop |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 play | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nothing | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 nothing | nsubj |
| 24 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 nothing | cop |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 quiet | conj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 true | punct |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 true | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 true | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 true | cop |
| 30 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 quiet | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 kind | punct |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 kind | cop |
| 33 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 quiet | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stay | punct |
| 35 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | near | near | ADV | _ | 35 stay | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tell | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 tell | cc |
| 39 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 stay | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 teacher | det |
| 41 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tell | iobj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 trust | nsubj |
| 43 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | a friend | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | a friend not said here | alone property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not want | present · do-support | a friend not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | a friend not said here | week | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | I | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | blood | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not is | may | a friend not said here | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | infinitive | a friend not said here | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | stay | imperative | you not said here | near property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 11 | trust | present | you | a teacher not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=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:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:11.
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): R6-punct-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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