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title: When you graze your knee and it goes red, warm and puffy, that is th… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics
description: When you graze your knee and it goes red, warm and puffy, that is the army arriving: blood brings white cells to the spot, and the swelling is part of the fight. Who acts: you, knee, that, army. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's pri
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# Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 2

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When you graze your knee and it goes red, warm and puffy, that is the army arriving: blood brings white cells to the spot, and the swelling is part of the fight.

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**Who acts:** you, knee, that, army, blood, swelling · **What happens:** graze, go, be, arrive, bring · **To what, where:** knee, army, white cells, spot, part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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 (you, knee, that, army), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:2
# text = When you graze your knee and it goes red, warm and puffy, that is the army arriving: blood brings white cells to the spot, and the swelling is part of the fight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	graze	graze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	puffy	puffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **graze** | present | you | your knee |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | present | knee |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | the army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **arrive** | gerund | the army *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | present | blood | white cells |  | the spot |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cell=Theme to spot=Destination |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the swelling | part |  |  |  | of the fight | tree rules |

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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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