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title: A bruise is bleeding under the skin from tiny broken blood vessels;… — Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns · tree and pragmatics
description: A bruise is bleeding under the skin from tiny broken blood vessels; cold, wrapped in a cloth, makes the vessels narrower, so there is less swelling and pain. Who acts: bruise, cold, less swelling. A sentence of the lesson «Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns, sentence 0

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A bruise is bleeding under the skin from tiny broken blood vessels; cold, wrapped in a cloth, makes the vessels narrower, so there is less swelling and pain.

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**Who acts:** bruise, cold, less swelling · **What happens:** bleed, break, wrap, make, be · **To what, where:** skin, cold, cloth, vessels

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns» 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 (bruise, cold, less swelling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:084-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns.lesson:0
# text = A bruise is bleeding under the skin from tiny broken blood vessels; cold, wrapped in a cloth, makes the vessels narrower, so there is less swelling and pain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 084-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bruise	bruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	narrower	narrow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
29	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **bleed** | present · progressive | a bruise |  |  | the skin |  | from tiny broken blood vessels | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from vessel=Source |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **wrap** | participle |  | cold *not said here* |  | a cloth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | present | cold | the vessels |  |  |  | narrow *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vessel=Product |
| 5 | **does** | present | less swelling and pain |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:084-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns.lesson:0`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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