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title: Cleaning a cut stops infection, and covering it keeps dirt out. — Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cleaning a cut stops infection, and covering it keeps dirt out. Who acts: Cleaning, covering. A sentence of the lesson «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses, sentence 11

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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 «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» 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:318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.lesson:11
# text = Cleaning a cut stops infection, and covering it keeps dirt out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj
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	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
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:318-water-cuts-bruises-bumps-burns-growing-and-seeing.lesson:11`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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