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title: A boy in Manchester put butter on a burn from the kettle; it kept th… — Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Manchester put butter on a burn from the kettle; it kept the heat in and the burn got worse, and at the hospital the nurse said cool running water would have helped. Who acts: boy, burn, nurse, cool running water. A sentence of the lesson «Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns» of the e
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# Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns, sentence 16

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A boy in Manchester put butter on a burn from the kettle; it kept the heat in and the burn got worse, and at the hospital the nurse said cool running water would have helped.

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**Who acts:** boy, burn, nurse, cool running water · **What happens:** put, keep, get, say, run, help · **To what, where:** butter, burn, heat, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, burn, nurse, cool running water), 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:16
# text = A boy in Manchester put butter on a burn from the kettle; it kept the heat in and the burn got worse, and at the hospital the nurse said cool running water would have helped.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	amod	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
37	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	ccomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **put** | past | a boy in Manchester | butter |  | a burn from the kettle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme on burn=Destination |
| 2 | **keep** | past | burn | the heat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | the burn |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the nurse |  |  | the hospital |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | would · perfect | cool running water |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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**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 ×2. **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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