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title: A friend who is hurt, scared or in trouble may say «It's just a scra… — Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A friend who is hurt, scared or in trouble may say «It's just a scratch», «I'm fine, honestly», «It's nothing», because they are embarrassed, don't want a fuss, or don't want to get into trouble. Who acts: friend, they. A sentence of the lesson «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an
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# Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 1

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A friend who is hurt, scared or in trouble may say «It's just a scratch», «I'm fine, honestly», «It's nothing», because they are embarrassed, don't want a fuss, or don't want to get into trouble.

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**Who acts:** friend, they · **What happens:** hurt, say, be, not want, get · **To what, where:** friend, scratch », nothing, fuss, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult» of the language 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 (friend, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:1
# text = A friend who is hurt, scared or in trouble may say «It's just a scratch», «I'm fine, honestly», «It's nothing», because they are embarrassed, don't want a fuss, or don't want to get into trouble.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
7	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
14	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	scratch	scratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
30	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	parataxis	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	want	want	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	want	want	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=42:conj
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | a friend |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | friend | scratch » |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a friend *= friend* |  |  |  |  | fine, honestly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | friend | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | embarrassed *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | they *not said here* | a fuss |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuss=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  | trouble |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |

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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:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:1`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2. **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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