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title: Tell a grown-up about a blister early and cover it with a plaster or… — Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell a grown-up about a blister early and cover it with a plaster or blister pad, before it becomes an open sore. Who acts: you, blister. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» of 
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# Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety, sentence 7

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Tell a grown-up about a blister early and cover it with a plaster or blister pad, before it becomes an open sore.

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**Who acts:** you, blister · **What happens:** tell, grow up, cover, become · **To what, where:** blister, open sore · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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, blister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.lesson:7
# text = Tell a grown-up about a blister early and cover it with a plaster or blister pad, before it becomes an open sore.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blister	blister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj
9	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	blister	blister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	pad	pad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sore	sore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  | about a grown blister; early *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about blister=Topic |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | blister |  |  |  | with a plaster or blister pad | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with plaster=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | present | blister | a open sore |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools.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): R4-particle ×1, 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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