Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 13
Banter is joking that is fun for everyone; if one person keeps getting hurt day after day, it is not banter, it can be bullying, and a teacher should be told.
Who acts: Banter, that, one person, person · What happens: joke, be, keep, hurt, not be, tell · To what, where: banter, 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 (Banter, that, one person, person), 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 | Banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joking | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 joking | aux |
| 3 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 fun | amod |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 fun | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fun | cop |
| 6 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 everyone | case |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 fun | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeps | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 keeps | mark |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 person | nummod |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeps | nsubj |
| 13 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fun | conj |
| 14 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hurt | aux:pass |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 keeps | xcomp |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hurt | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 banter | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 banter | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 banter | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 banter | advmod |
| 23 | banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fun | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bullying | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bullying | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bullying | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 bullying | cop |
| 28 | bullying | bully | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fun | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 told | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 told | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 teacher | det |
| 32 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 told | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 told | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 told | aux:pass |
| 35 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fun | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joking | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | present · progressive | Banter | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | for everyone; fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep a condition, not said to happen | present | one person | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hurt | gerund · passive | one person not said here | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | person | banter | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | can | person | bully property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | should · passive | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:13.
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. 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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