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title: After a cut from a rusty nail or an animal bite, tell an adult, beca… — Doctors, cuts and grazes · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Doctors, cuts and grazes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Doctors, cuts and grazes, sentence 12

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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.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tell, need, find · **To what, where:** adult, tetanus injection, dangerous germ, soil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.lesson:12
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.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	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tetanus	tetanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	injection	injection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	jab	jab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  | after a cut from a rusty nail or a animal bite |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **need** | may | you | a tetanus injection |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot injection=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | participle |  | a dangerous germ *not said here* |  | soil and rust |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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:083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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