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title: Cold narrows blood vessels and slows swelling and pain in the first… — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: Cold narrows blood vessels and slows swelling and pain in the first day or two after an injury. Who acts: Cold. A sentence of the lesson «Sprains, strains and bruises» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sprains, strains and bruises, sentence 7

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Cold narrows blood vessels and slows swelling and pain in the first day or two after an injury.

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**Who acts:** Cold · **What happens:** narrow, slow · **To what, where:** blood vessels, swelling

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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 (Cold), 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:7
# text = Cold narrows blood vessels and slows swelling and pain in the first day or two after an injury.
# 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): no change
1	Cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	narrows	narrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **narrow** | present | Cold | blood vessels |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient |
| 2 | **slow** | present | Cold *not said here* | swelling and pain |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent swelling=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:7`.

**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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