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title: A hit to the nose can cause swelling and bruising that lasts a week… — Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» · tree and pragmatics
description: A hit to the nose can cause swelling and bruising that lasts a week or more, and sometimes a broken nose. Who acts: hit, swelling. A sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», sentence 22

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A hit to the nose can cause swelling and bruising that lasts a week or more, and sometimes a broken nose.

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**Who acts:** hit, swelling · **What happens:** cause, last, break · **To what, where:** swelling

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» 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 (hit, swelling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:22
# text = A hit to the nose can cause swelling and bruising that lasts a week or more, and sometimes a broken nose.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bruising	bruising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
22	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **cause** | can | a hit to the nose | swelling and bruising and a broken nose |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition swelling=Patient |
| 2 | **last** | present | swelling and bruising and a broken nose |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:22`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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