--- title: The recovery position, on the side with the top leg bent and the hea… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics description: The recovery position, on the side with the top leg bent and the head tilted back, keeps the airway open in someone who is unconscious but breathing. Who acts: recovery position. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recovery position), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:026-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e.lesson:14 # text = The recovery position, on the side with the top leg bent and the head tilted back, keeps the airway open in someone who is unconscious but breathing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 026-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e.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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 recovery recovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 bent bent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 tilted tilt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 airway airway NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obl _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 unconscious unconscious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bent** | participle | | the top leg *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tilt back** | past | the recovery position on the side with the top leg *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | the recovery position on the side with the top leg | the airway | | someone | | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent airway=Theme in someone=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | unconscious *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **breathe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:medicine:026-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/12/) - next →: [Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/)