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title: A bruise is blood leaking from tiny broken vessels under the skin, a… — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: A bruise is blood leaking from tiny broken vessels under the skin, and it changes colour, purple, blue, green, yellow, as the body cleans it up. Who acts: bruise, body. A sentence of the lesson «Sprains, strains and bruises» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Sprains, strains and bruises, sentence 2

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A bruise is blood leaking from tiny broken vessels under the skin, and it changes colour, purple, blue, green, yellow, as the body cleans it up.

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**Who acts:** bruise, body · **What happens:** leak, break, change, clean up · **To what, where:** tiny broken vessels, colour

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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 (bruise, body), 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:2
# text = A bruise is blood leaking from tiny broken vessels under the skin, and it changes colour, purple, blue, green, yellow, as the body cleans it up.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bruise	bruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	leaking	leak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	cleans	clean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **leak** | present · progressive | a bruise |  |  | tiny broken vessels under the skin |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from vessel=Source |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **change** | present | bruise | colour |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 4 | **clean up** | present | the body | colour |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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