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title: A bruise gets a cold pack wrapped in a cloth for a few minutes, beca… — First aid, medicine and the sun · tree and pragmatics
description: A bruise gets a cold pack wrapped in a cloth for a few minutes, because cold reduces swelling and pain. Who acts: bruise, cold. A sentence of the lesson «First aid, medicine and the sun» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# First aid, medicine and the sun, sentence 10

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A bruise gets a cold pack wrapped in a cloth for a few minutes, because cold reduces swelling and pain.

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**Who acts:** bruise, cold · **What happens:** get, wrap, reduce · **To what, where:** cold pack, cloth, swelling

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This is a sentence of the lesson «First aid, medicine and the sun» of the everyday 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 (bruise, cold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun.lesson:10
# text = A bruise gets a cold pack wrapped in a cloth for a few minutes, because cold reduces swelling and pain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bruise	bruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reduces	reduce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
19	swelling	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a bruise | a cold pack |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pack=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle |  | a cold pack *not said here* |  | a cloth | minute |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
| 3 | **reduce** | present | cold | swelling and pain |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer swell=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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**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:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun.lesson:10`.

**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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