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title: If someone faints, get an adult, lay them down and raise their legs… — Home myths, first aid and weather warnings · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone faints, get an adult, lay them down and raise their legs a little. Who acts: someone, you. A sentence of the lesson «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Home myths, first aid and weather warnings, sentence 18

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If someone faints, get an adult, lay them down and raise their legs a little.

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**Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** faint, get, lay down, raise · **To what, where:** adult, injuries, legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» of the everyday 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 (someone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:18
# text = If someone faints, get an adult, lay them down and raise their legs a little.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	faints	faint	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	raise	raise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **faint** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | injuries *= injury* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 4 | **raise** | infinitive | you *not said here* | injuries's legs |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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