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title: Never put butter, toothpaste or ice on a burn, because they can make… — Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns · tree and pragmatics
description: Never put butter, toothpaste or ice on a burn, because they can make it worse or cause infection. Who acts: you, butter. A sentence of the lesson «Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns, sentence 13

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Never put butter, toothpaste or ice on a burn, because they can make it worse or cause infection.

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**Who acts:** you, butter · **What happens:** not put, make, cause · **To what, where:** butter, burn, infection

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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 (you, butter), 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:13
# text = Never put butter, toothpaste or ice on a burn, because they can make it worse or cause infection.
# 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): no change
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | butter and toothpaste or ice |  | a burn |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme on burn=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | can | butter | burn |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | butter *not said here* | infection |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient |

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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:13`.

**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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