Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 8

People often play down a real injury or problem because they are embarrassed, scared of getting into trouble, or don't want a fuss.

Who acts: People · What happens: play down, be, get, not want · To what, where: real injury, trouble, 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 (People), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 play	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 play	advmod
3	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 play	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 injury	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 injury	amod
7	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 problem	cc
9	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 injury	conj
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 embarrassed	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 embarrassed	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 embarrassed	cop
13	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 play	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scared	punct
15	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 embarrassed	conj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 getting	mark
17	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 scared	advcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 trouble	case
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 getting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 want	cc
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 want	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 want	advmod
24	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 embarrassed	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fuss	det
26	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 want	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play down	present	People	a real injury or problem		often property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Theme
2	is	present	People			embarrassed property	tree rules
3	be		People not said here				tree rules
4	get	gerund	People not said here		trouble		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination
5	not want	present · do-support	People not said here	a fuss			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuss=Theme

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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×2. 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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