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title: Tell doctors and nurses the truth about how you got hurt; they need… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · 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, nurses, true facts. A sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» of the everyday cours
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# Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 11

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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, nurses, 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 «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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, nurses, true facts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:11
# 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 = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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): 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	14	conj	_	_
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	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 | nurses *= nurse* | 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 | nurses *= nurse* |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | nurses *= nurse* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **punish** | to-infinitive | nurses *= nurse* *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): 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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