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title: CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, means pressing hard and fast on… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, means pressing hard and fast on the middle of the chest to keep blood moving when the heart has stopped, and the call handler can talk anyone through it. Who acts: CPR, blood, heart, call handler. A sentence of the lesson «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of t
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# Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, sentence 8

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CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, means pressing hard and fast on the middle of the chest to keep blood moving when the heart has stopped, and the call handler can talk anyone through it.

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**Who acts:** CPR, blood, heart, call handler · **What happens:** mean, press, keep, move, stop, talk · **To what, where:** blood, anyone, heart

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the medicine 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 (CPR, blood, heart, call handler), 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:8
# text = CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, means pressing hard and fast on the middle of the chest to keep blood moving when the heart has stopped, and the call handler can talk anyone through it.
# 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): no change
1	CPR	cpr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	cardiopulmonary	cardiopulmonary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	resuscitation	resuscitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	xcomp	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	handler	handler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
33	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present | CPR |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **press** *not said to happen* | gerund | CPR *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the middle of the chest; hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on middle=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | CPR *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | gerund | blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | present · perfect | the heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **talk** | can | the call handler | anyone |  | heart |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent anyone=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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**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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