Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 7

The wise reader checks the evidence both ways, and when in doubt, tells a trusted adult — that is never telling tales.

Who acts: wise reader · What happens: check, tell, trust, not tell · To what, where: evidence, trusted adult, doubt, tales · 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 (wise reader), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reader	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reader	amod
3	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 checks	nsubj
4	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 checks	obj
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ways	det
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 checks	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tells	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tells	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 tells	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 doubt	case
13	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tells	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doubt	punct
15	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 checks	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 adult	det
17	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 adult	amod
18	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tells	obj
19	—	—	PUNCT	_	23 telling	punct
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 telling	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 telling	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 telling	advmod
23	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 tells	acl
24	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 telling	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 checks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	check	present	the wise reader	the evidence			both ways obl	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	the wise reader not said here		a trusted adult	doubt		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	trust	participle						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not tell speech: assert	present · progressive		tales				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=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:7.

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, 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.

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