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description: Once is nothing, every day is a pattern: a friend skipping lunch once is fine, but every day this week is worth telling a trusted teacher. Who acts: friend, day. 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 wi
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# Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 19

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Once is nothing, every day is a pattern: a friend skipping lunch once is fine, but every day this week is worth telling a trusted teacher.

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**Who acts:** friend, day · **What happens:** be, skip, tell, trust · **To what, where:** nothing, pattern, lunch, trusted teacher · **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, day), 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:19
# text = Once is nothing, every day is a pattern: a friend skipping lunch once is fine, but every day this week is worth telling a trusted teacher.
# 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 ×1
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	ccomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a pattern |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **skip** | gerund | a friend *not said here* | lunch |  |  |  | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | a friend |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | every day  this week |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | every day  this week *not said here* |  | a trusted teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 7 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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