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title: Wash a small cut or graze with clean water, press with a clean cloth… — Doctors, cuts and grazes · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: 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 c
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# Doctors, cuts and grazes, sentence 8

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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.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wash, graze, press, stop, cover · **To what, where:** small cut, bleeding

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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:8
# text = 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.
# 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	Wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	graze	graze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	press	press	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	bandage	bandage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | a small cut |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient |
| 2 | **graze** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with clean water | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **press** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a clean cloth | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the bleeding |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bleeding=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | bleeding |  |  |  | with a plaster or bandage | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with plaster=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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**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:8`.

**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.

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