Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 9

Blood that keeps coming through a tissue means more than a scratch; get an adult, even if your friend asks you not to.

Who acts: Blood, friend · What happens: keep, come, mean, get, not ask · To what, where: tissue, more, adult, you

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 (Blood, friend), 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	Blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Blood	acl:relcl
4	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 tissue	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tissue	det
7	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 means	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 scratch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 scratch	det
12	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 more	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	parataxis
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 adult	det
16	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asks	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	22 asks	advmod
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 asks	mark
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 asks	nsubj
22	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 get	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 asks	obj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 asks	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	24 not	fixed
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	keep	present	Blood				tree rules
2	come	gerund	Blood not said here			a tissue	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through tissue=Initial_Location
3	mean	present	Blood	more			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic
4	get	infinitive		a adult			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus
5	not ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	your friend		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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:9.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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