--- title: Grown-ups play things down too: if Grandad is pale and has to stop f… — Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups play things down too: if Grandad is pale and has to stop for breath on the stairs, tell another grown-up what you saw. Who acts: Grown ups, Grandad, you. 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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 (Grown ups, Grandad, you), 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:14 # text = Grown-ups play things down too: if Grandad is pale and has to stop for breath on the stairs, tell another grown-up what you saw. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grown grown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 7 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 25 obj _ _ 25 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play down** | present | Grown ups | things | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Grandad | | | | | pale *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | Grandad *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Grandad *not said here* | | | the stairs | | for breath | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient | | 6 | **see** | past | you | grown | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | 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:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:14`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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