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title: A bruise is blood leaked from tiny broken blood vessels, and it turn… — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: A bruise is blood leaked from tiny broken blood vessels, and it turns from purple to blue, green and yellow as it heals. Who acts: bruise, it. 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 
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# Sprains, strains and bruises, sentence 9

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A bruise is blood leaked from tiny broken blood vessels, and it turns from purple to blue, green and yellow as it heals.

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**Who acts:** bruise, it · **What happens:** be, leak, break, turn, heal · **To what, where:** blood, tiny broken blood vessels, purple

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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, it), 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:9
# text = A bruise is blood leaked from tiny broken blood vessels, and it turns from purple to blue, green and yellow as it heals.
# 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	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	leaked	leak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	heals	heal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 a** | present | a bruise | blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leak** | participle |  | blood *not said here* |  | tiny broken blood vessels |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from vessel=Source |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | present | it |  |  | purple |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from purple=Trajectory |
| 5 | **heal** | present | bruise |  |  |  |  |  | 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:9`.

**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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