--- title: A cut heals because skin cells around it divide and make new cells t… — Cells, bones and muscles · tree and pragmatics description: A cut heals because skin cells around it divide and make new cells that crawl across the wound, while a scab protects it from germs. Who acts: cut, skin cells, new cells, scab. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cut, skin cells, new cells, scab), 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:7 # text = A cut heals because skin cells around it divide and make new cells that crawl across the wound, while a scab protects it from germs. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heals heal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 9 mark _ _ 5 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 divide divide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 crawl crawl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 across across ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 scab scab NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **heal** | present | a cut | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **divide** | present | skin cells around cut | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | skin cells around cut *not said here* | new cells | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cell=Product | | 4 | **crawl** | present | new cells | | | the wound | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across wound=Trajectory | | 5 | **protect** | present | a scab | cut | | | | from germs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from germ=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:biology:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.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): R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cells, bones and muscles, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/6/) - next →: [Cells, bones and muscles, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/)