--- title: Grown-ups play things down too, like Grandad saying «it's nothing, I… — Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups play things down too, like Grandad saying «it's nothing, I'm just a bit puffed» when he is pale on the stairs. Who acts: Grown ups, Grandad, blood. 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 with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/51-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/51-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult/) / 4 # Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 4 Grown-ups play things down too, like Grandad saying «it's nothing, I'm just a bit puffed» when he is pale on the stairs. **Who acts:** Grown ups, Grandad, blood · **What happens:** play down, say, be · **To what, where:** things, nothing, stairs · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Grown ups, Grandad, blood), 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:4 # text = Grown-ups play things down too, like Grandad saying «it's nothing, I'm just a bit puffed» when he is pale on the stairs. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×4 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 0 root _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 7 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 puffed puff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 S\_INF»: agent=Agent thing=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Grandad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | blood | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Grandad | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; puff *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | Grandad | | | the stairs | | pale *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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 ×4. **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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