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title: Cleaning a cut stops infection, and covering it keeps dirt out. — First aid, medicine and the sun · tree and pragmatics
description: Cleaning a cut stops infection, and covering it keeps dirt out. Who acts: Cleaning, covering. 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 9

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Cleaning a cut stops infection, and covering it keeps dirt out.

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**Who acts:** Cleaning, covering · **What happens:** clean, stop, cover, keep out · **To what, where:** cut, infection, dirt

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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 (Cleaning, covering), 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:9
# text = Cleaning a cut stops infection, and covering it keeps dirt out.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | gerund |  | a cut |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cut=Patient |
| 2 | **stop** | present | Cleaning | infection |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality infection=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cover** | gerund |  | cut |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
| 4 | **keep out** | present | covering | dirt |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme |

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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: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. **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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