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title: Blood that keeps coming through a tissue means more than a scratch;… — Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blood that keeps coming through a tissue means more than a scratch; get an adult, even if your friend asks you not to. Who acts: Blood, friend. 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 
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# Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 9

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Blood that keeps coming through a tissue means more than a scratch; get an adult, even if your friend asks you not to.

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**Who acts:** Blood, friend · **What happens:** keep, come, mean, get, not ask · **To what, where:** tissue, more, adult, you

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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 (Blood, friend), 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:9
# text = Blood that keeps coming through a tissue means more than a scratch; get an adult, even if your friend asks you not to.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scratch	scratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Blood |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | Blood *not said here* |  |  | a tissue |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through tissue=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Blood | more |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive |  | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your friend |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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**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:9`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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