--- title: Nurses have a whole kit of tricks for this: numbing cream or cold sp… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics description: Nurses have a whole kit of tricks for this: numbing cream or cold spray, sitting on a parent's lap, blowing bubbles, a video, a hand to squeeze, and an honest answer to every question. Who acts: Nurses, whole kit. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nurses, whole kit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:3 # text = Nurses have a whole kit of tricks for this: numbing cream or cold spray, sitting on a parent's lap, blowing bubbles, a video, a hand to squeeze, and an honest answer to every question. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 032-needles-and-brave-faces.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 1 Nurses nurse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 kit kit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 numbing numb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 12 cream cream NOUN NN _ 5 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 spray spray NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 blowing blowing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 conj _ _ 25 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 squeeze squeeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Nurses | a whole kit of tricks for this | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Patient | | 2 | **numb** | gerund | a whole kit of tricks for this *not said here* | a honest answer to every question | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | a whole kit of tricks for this *not said here* | | | a parent's lap and a video and a hand | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location | | 4 | **blowing** | gerund | a whole kit of tricks for this *not said here* | bubbles | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **squeeze** | to-infinitive | a whole kit of tricks for this *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:3`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Needles and brave faces, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/2/) - next →: [Needles and brave faces, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/)