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title: Tell doctors and nurses the truth about how you got hurt; they need… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell doctors and nurses the truth about how you got hurt; they need true facts to treat you, and they are there to help, not to punish. Who acts: you, People, true facts. A sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 13

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Tell doctors and nurses the truth about how you got hurt; they need true facts to treat you, and they are there to help, not to punish.

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**Who acts:** you, People, true facts · **What happens:** tell, hurt, need, treat, be, help · **To what, where:** truth, doctors, you, true facts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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 (you, People, true facts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:13
# text = Tell doctors and nurses the truth about how you got hurt; they need true facts to treat you, and they are there to help, not to punish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	punish	punish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the truth | doctors and nurses |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient truth=Topic |
| 2 | **hurt** | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | People | true facts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **treat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | true facts *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | People |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **punish** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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, 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.

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

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