--- title: The wise reader checks the evidence both ways, and when in doubt, te… — Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and t… · tree and pragmatics description: The wise reader checks the evidence both ways, and when in doubt, tells a trusted adult — that is never telling tales. Who acts: wise reader. 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 its dependency tr --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 7 The wise reader checks the evidence both ways, and when in doubt, tells a trusted adult — that is never telling tales. **Who acts:** wise reader · **What happens:** check, tell, trust, not tell · **To what, where:** evidence, trusted adult, doubt, tales · **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 (wise reader), 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:7 # text = The wise reader checks the evidence both ways, and when in doubt, tells a trusted adult — that is never telling tales. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 — — PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 acl _ _ 24 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 . . 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 | **check** | present | the wise reader | the evidence | | | | both ways *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the wise reader *not said here* | | a trusted adult | doubt | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 3 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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