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title: When you cut yourself, platelets stick together at the cut and threa… — The heart and blood · tree and pragmatics
description: When you cut yourself, platelets stick together at the cut and threads of a protein called fibrin form a net that traps blood cells into a clot, which dries into a scab. Who acts: you, platelets, protein, threads. A sentence of the lesson «The heart and blood» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# The heart and blood, sentence 13

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When you cut yourself, platelets stick together at the cut and threads of a protein called fibrin form a net that traps blood cells into a clot, which dries into a scab.

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**Who acts:** you, platelets, protein, threads, net, clot · **What happens:** cut, stick together, call, form, trap, dry · **To what, where:** yourself, cut, fibrin, net, blood cells, clot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The heart and blood» 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, platelets, protein, threads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:065-the-heart-and-blood.lesson:13
# text = When you cut yourself, platelets stick together at the cut and threads of a protein called fibrin form a net that traps blood cells into a clot, which dries into a scab.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 065-the-heart-and-blood.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	platelets	platelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	fibrin	fibrin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
19	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	clot	clot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	scab	scab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **cut** | present | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Product |
| 2 | **stick together** | present | platelets |  |  | the cut |  | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at cut=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a protein *not said here* | fibrin |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **form** | present | threads of a protein | a net |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=Theme |
| 5 | **trap** | present | a net | blood cells |  |  |  | into a clot *result* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cell=Patient into clot=Result |
| 6 | **dry** | present | a clot |  |  | a scab |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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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