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title: Bruises on shins and knees are normal in active children; lots of br… — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruises on shins and knees are normal in active children; lots of bruises in odd places, or bruises someone caused, should be told to a trusted adult; pressing or rubbing a bruise does not make it heal faster. Who acts: Bruises, someone, pressing, bruise. A sentence of the lesson «Sprains, strains a
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# Sprains, strains and bruises, sentence 10

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Bruises on shins and knees are normal in active children; lots of bruises in odd places, or bruises someone caused, should be told to a trusted adult; pressing or rubbing a bruise does not make it heal faster.

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**Who acts:** Bruises, someone, pressing, bruise · **What happens:** be, cause, tell, press, rub, not make · **To what, where:** bruises, lots, trusted adult, bruise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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 (Bruises, someone, pressing, bruise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:003-sprains-strains-and-bruises.lesson:10
# text = Bruises on shins and knees are normal in active children; lots of bruises in odd places, or bruises someone caused, should be told to a trusted adult; pressing or rubbing a bruise does not make it heal faster.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 003-sprains-strains-and-bruises.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bruises	bruise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shins	shin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
12	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	bruises	bruise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bruises	bruise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
22	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	_	30	amod	_	_
30	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	csubj	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bruise	bruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | Bruises on shins and knees |  |  |  |  | in active children; normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | past | someone | bruises *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bruise=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · passive |  | lots of bruises in odd places | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **press** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rub** | gerund |  | a bruise |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bruise=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | pressing | bruise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **heal** | infinitive | bruise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:medicine:003-sprains-strains-and-bruises.lesson:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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