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title: Some injuries look small but need an adult. — Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some injuries look small but need an adult. Who acts: injuries. 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 clause.
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# Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses, sentence 4

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Some injuries look small but need an adult.

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**Who acts:** injuries · **What happens:** look, need · **To what, where:** adult

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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 (injuries), 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:4
# text = Some injuries look small but need an adult.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look** | present | some injuries |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **need** | present | some injuries *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adult=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:4`.

**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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