Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 14

Grown-ups play things down too: if Grandad is pale and has to stop for breath on the stairs, tell another grown-up what you saw.

Who acts: Grown ups, Grandad, you · What happens: play down, be, have, stop, tell, see · To what, where: things, stairs, 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 (Grown ups, Grandad, 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	Grown	grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 play	nsubj
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	parataxis
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 play	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 play	compound:prt
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 play	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 pale	mark
10	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pale	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pale	cop
12	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tell	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 has	cc
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pale	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stop	mark
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 has	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 breath	case
18	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stop	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 stairs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stairs	det
21	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stop	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct
23	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 grown	obj
25	grown	grown-up	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 up	punct
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 grown	compound
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 saw	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grown	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play down	present	Grown ups	things			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Grandad			pale property	tree rules
3	have	present	Grandad not said here				tree rules
4	stop	to-infinitive	Grandad not said here		the stairs	for breath	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	grown			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient
6	see	past	you	grown			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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:14.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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