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title: When something goes wrong, act calmly: a bleeding gap from a baby to… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: When something goes wrong, act calmly: a bleeding gap from a baby tooth stops with gentle pressure, but a knocked-out grown-up tooth needs a dentist at once. Who acts: something, you, bleeding gap, knocked grown tooth. A sentence of the lesson «Flossing and caring for your teeth» of the everyday cou
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# Flossing and caring for your teeth, sentence 2

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When something goes wrong, act calmly: a bleeding gap from a baby tooth stops with gentle pressure, but a knocked-out grown-up tooth needs a dentist at once.

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**Who acts:** something, you, bleeding gap, knocked grown tooth · **What happens:** go, act, stop, knock, grow up, need · **To what, where:** dentist

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Flossing and caring for your teeth» 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 (something, you, bleeding gap, knocked grown tooth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.lesson:2
# text = When something goes wrong, act calmly: a bleeding gap from a baby tooth stops with gentle pressure, but a knocked-out grown-up tooth needs a dentist at once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 074-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	act	act	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
23	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound
26	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=26:compound
29	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	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 | **go** | present | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **act** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | present | a bleeding gap from a baby tooth |  |  |  |  | with gentle pressure | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with pressure=Location |
| 4 | **knock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **need** | present | a knocked grown tooth | a dentist |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dentist=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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**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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