--- title: Doctors, cuts and grazes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Doctors, cuts and grazes», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Doctors and nurses are there to help you get better; when they look in your ears and throat, it does not hurt, and it shows them what is wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Doctors, cuts and grazes # Doctors, cuts and grazes Lesson 83 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/0/) — Doctors and nurses are there to help you get better; when they look in your ears and throat, it does not hurt, and it shows them what is wrong. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/1/) — Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out; a cut or graze makes a gap, so you clean it, stop the bleeding and cover it until new skin grows. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/2/) — A scab is the body's own plaster: it protects the new skin underneath, so it is best to leave it alone. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/3/) — A boy in Galway scrapes his knee on the path; he rinses it with clean water, presses a clean cloth on it until it stops bleeding, and puts on a plaster. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/4/) — When a doctor looks in your ears and throat it does not hurt, and it helps them find out what is wrong. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/5/) — If a doctor needs to look at a private part of your body, a parent or carer should be in the room and the doctor explains why. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/6/) — In the UK, for medical advice that is not an emergency, an adult can call NHS 111. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/7/) — In hospital you can ask questions and tell the nurses how you feel, because they are there to help you. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/8/) — Wash a small cut or graze with clean water, press with a clean cloth to stop the bleeding, and cover it with a plaster or bandage. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/9/) — For a deep cut that keeps bleeding, press hard on it with a clean cloth and get an adult at once; it may need stitches. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/10/) — Do not pick a scab, because it protects the new skin underneath and picking can cause scars. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/11/) — A cut that becomes red, hot, swollen or full of pus may be infected, so tell a parent. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/12/) — After a cut from a rusty nail or an animal bite, tell an adult, because you may need a tetanus injection (a jab against a dangerous germ found in soil and rust) or a check-up. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/13/) — Do not play with knives or broken glass, and tell an adult about broken glass, because they cut deeply. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/14/) — A boy in Leeds did not clean a graze from the playground; two days later it was red, hot and full of pus, and he needed antibiotics. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/15/) — A girl in Colorado cut her hand badly on glass and her friend kept looking under the cloth every few seconds; it kept bleeding until an adult pressed firmly for ten minutes. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/16/) — A cut or graze that is not cleaned can become infected, getting red, swollen, warm and painful. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/17/) — Most bleeding stops if you press firmly on the wound with a clean cloth and keep pressing. - ← previous: [Getting better, caring for others and medicines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/) - next →: [Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/84-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)