Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 20

Sometimes the words match the evidence: a tiny paper cut with one drop of blood really is just a scratch, and making a huge fuss is not needed.

Who acts: words, paper cut, making · What happens: match, be, make, not need · To what, where: evidence, scratch, huge fuss

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 (words, paper cut, making), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 match	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 match	nsubj
4	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evidence	det
6	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 match	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 cut	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 paper	det
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 paper	amod
10	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	compound
11	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 scratch	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 drop	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 drop	nummod
14	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 blood	case
16	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drop	nmod
17	really	really	ADV	_	21 scratch	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 scratch	cop
19	just	just	ADV	_	21 scratch	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 scratch	det
21	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 match	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 needed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 needed	cc
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 needed	csubj:pass
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fuss	det
26	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fuss	amod
27	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	obj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 needed	aux:pass
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 needed	advmod
30	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 scratch	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 match	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	match	present	the words	the evidence	sometimes property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient
2	is a	present	paper cut	a scratch		tree rules
3	make	gerund		a huge fuss		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product
4	not need	present · passive	making			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»

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:20.

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, R5-strong ×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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