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title: Most bleeding stops if you press firmly on the wound with a clean cl… — Doctors, cuts and grazes · tree and pragmatics
description: Most bleeding stops if you press firmly on the wound with a clean cloth and keep pressing. Who acts: Most bleeding, you. A sentence of the lesson «Doctors, cuts and grazes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Doctors, cuts and grazes, sentence 17

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Most bleeding stops if you press firmly on the wound with a clean cloth and keep pressing.

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**Who acts:** Most bleeding, you · **What happens:** stop, press, keep

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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 (Most bleeding, 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:17
# text = Most bleeding stops if you press firmly on the wound with a clean cloth and keep pressing.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **stop** | present | Most bleeding |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **press** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with a clean cloth; on the wound; firmly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on wound=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **press** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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:17`.

**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): R6-punct-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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