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description: Scrape your knee in the playground and watch it over a week: skin cells around the cut divide again and again and crawl across the wound under the scab until new skin covers it. Who acts: you, skin cells, new skin. A sentence of the lesson «Cells, bones and muscles» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Cells, bones and muscles, sentence 1

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Scrape your knee in the playground and watch it over a week: skin cells around the cut divide again and again and crawl across the wound under the scab until new skin covers it.

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**Who acts:** you, skin cells, new skin · **What happens:** scrape, watch over, divide, crawl, cover · **To what, where:** knee, playground, wound

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cells, bones and muscles» of the biology 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 (you, skin cells, new skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.lesson:1
# text = Scrape your knee in the playground and watch it over a week: skin cells around the cut divide again and again and crawl across the wound under the scab until new skin covers it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 064-cells-bones-and-muscles.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): no change
1	Scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	divide	divide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	across	across	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	scab	scab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrape** | imperative | you *not said here* | your knee |  | the playground |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent knee=Theme in playground=Trajectory |
| 2 | **watch over** | infinitive | you *not said here* | knee |  |  | week |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **divide** | present | skin cells around the cut |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **crawl** | present | skin cells around the cut *not said here* |  |  | the wound |  | under the scab | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across wound=Trajectory |
| 5 | **cover** | present | new skin | knee |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |

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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:biology:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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