--- title: If a friend with diabetes looks shaky, pale and confused, tell an ad… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics description: If a friend with diabetes looks shaky, pale and confused, tell an adult at once, because their blood sugar may be too low and they may need sugar quickly. Who acts: friend, you, blood sugar, friends. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, you, blood sugar, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:7 # text = If a friend with diabetes looks shaky, pale and confused, tell an adult at once, because their blood sugar may be too low and they may need sugar quickly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 082-getting-better-and-medicines.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 diabetes diabetes NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 6 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 7 shaky shaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 confused confused ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 31 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a friend with diabetes | | | | | shaky *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | may | friends's blood sugar | | | | | low *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | may | friends *= friend* | sugar | | | | quickly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sugar=Theme | 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. **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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/6/) - next →: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/)