Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 4

Grown-ups play things down too, like Grandad saying «it's nothing, I'm just a bit puffed» when he is pale on the stairs.

Who acts: Grown ups, Grandad, blood · What happens: play down, say, be · To what, where: things, nothing, stairs · 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, blood), 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	root	root
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	_	11 saying	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 saying	mark
10	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 saying	nsubj
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 play	advcl
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 nothing	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 nothing	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nothing	cop
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 saying	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 puffed	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 puffed	nsubj
18	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 puffed	cop
19	just	just	ADV	_	22 puffed	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bit	det
21	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 puffed	obl:unmarked
22	puffed	puff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 play	parataxis
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 pale	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 pale	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pale	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 pale	cop
27	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 puffed	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 stairs	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stairs	det
30	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pale	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play down	present	Grown ups	things			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thing=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Grandad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	blood	nothing			tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	Grandad			a bit obl:unmarked; puff property	tree rules
5	is	present	Grandad		the stairs	pale property	tree rules

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:4.

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): R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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