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title: A split lip or a fall on a kerb can need a doctor, and head injuries… — Street gangs and loyalty · tree and pragmatics
description: A split lip or a fall on a kerb can need a doctor, and head injuries can be serious. Who acts: split lip, head injuries. A sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 21

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A split lip or a fall on a kerb can need a doctor, and head injuries can be serious.

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**Who acts:** split lip, head injuries · **What happens:** need, be · **To what, where:** doctor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» 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 (split lip, head injuries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:21
# text = A split lip or a fall on a kerb can need a doctor, and head injuries can be serious.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	split	split	ADJ	JJ	_	3	amod	_	_
3	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kerb	kerb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | can | a split lip or a fall on a kerb | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | head injuries |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | tree rules |

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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:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:21`.

**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): R7-rel-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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