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title: A twisted ankle should be rested, cooled with ice wrapped in a cloth… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A twisted ankle should be rested, cooled with ice wrapped in a cloth, and checked by an adult or doctor if it swells or hurts a lot. Who acts: ankle. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 24

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A twisted ankle should be rested, cooled with ice wrapped in a cloth, and checked by an adult or doctor if it swells or hurts a lot.

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**Who acts:** ankle · **What happens:** rest, cool, wrap, check, swell, hurt · **To what, where:** twisted ankle, ice, cloth, lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» 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 (ankle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:24
# text = A twisted ankle should be rested, cooled with ice wrapped in a cloth, and checked by an adult or doctor if it swells or hurts a lot.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.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	3	det	_	_
2	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ankle	ankle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **rest** | should · passive |  | a twisted ankle |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **cool** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with ice | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ice=Instrument |
| 3 | **wrap** | participle |  | ice *not said here* |  | a cloth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
| 4 | **check** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a adult or doctor | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by adult=Location |
| 5 | **swell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ankle |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **hurt** | present | ankle *not said here* | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=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.

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