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title: A child can deal with small hurts like a cut knee, but anything seri… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: A child can deal with small hurts like a cut knee, but anything serious needs a grown-up straight away. Who acts: child, anything. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 43

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A child can deal with small hurts like a cut knee, but anything serious needs a grown-up straight away.

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**Who acts:** child, anything · **What happens:** deal, need · **To what, where:** grown

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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 (child, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:43
# text = A child can deal with small hurts like a cut knee, but anything serious needs a grown-up straight away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hurts	hurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cut	cut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
15	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound	_	_
21	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **deal** | can | a child |  |  |  |  | with small hurts like a cut knee | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hurt=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | anything | grown |  |  |  | away *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grow=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:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:43`.

**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. **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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