Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 12
When a stranger online says «it's no biggie, just tell me what school you go to», it IS a big deal: don't answer, block, and tell a grown-up you trust.
Who acts: stranger, blood, you, grown · What happens: say, be, tell, go, not answer, block · To what, where: biggie, stranger, school, », big deal, grown · 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 (stranger, blood, you, grown), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 says | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 4 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stranger | amod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 deal | advcl |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 biggie | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 biggie | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 biggie | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 biggie | det |
| 10 | biggie | biggie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 tell | advmod |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 biggie | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 school | det |
| 16 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 » | case |
| 20 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 deal | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 deal | nsubj |
| 23 | IS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 deal | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 deal | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deal | amod |
| 26 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 answer | punct |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 answer | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 answer | advmod |
| 30 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 deal | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 block | punct |
| 32 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 answer | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tell | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tell | cc |
| 35 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 answer | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 grown | det |
| 37 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tell | obj |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 up | punct |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 grown | compound |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 trust | nsubj |
| 41 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 grown | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | blood | no biggie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | a stranger = stranger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | you | what school | » | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to »=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is a | present | blood | a big deal | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not answer speech: assert | infinitive · do-support | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | block | infinitive | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | trust | present | you | a grown not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grown-up=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:12.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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