--- title: People often play down a real injury or problem because they are emb… — Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and t… · tree and pragmatics description: People often play down a real injury or problem because they are embarrassed, scared of getting into trouble, or don't want a fuss. Who acts: People. 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 depen --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 8 People often play down a real injury or problem because they are embarrassed, scared of getting into trouble, or don't want a fuss. **Who acts:** People · **What happens:** play down, be, get, not want · **To what, where:** real injury, trouble, fuss 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 (People), 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:8 # text = People often play down a real injury or problem because they are embarrassed, scared of getting into trouble, or don't want a fuss. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 injury injury NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 embarrassed embarrassed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 of of SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fuss fuss NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | People | a real injury or problem | | | | often *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | People | | | | | embarrassed *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | People *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | gerund | People *not said here* | | | trouble | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | | 5 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | People *not said here* | a fuss | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuss=Theme | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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