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title: Numbing cream or cold spray, sitting on a parent's lap and distracti… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics
description: Numbing cream or cold spray, sitting on a parent's lap and distraction all make needles easier, and children can ask for them. Who acts: Numbing cream, children. A sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Needles and brave faces, sentence 6

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Numbing cream or cold spray, sitting on a parent's lap and distraction all make needles easier, and children can ask for them.

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**Who acts:** Numbing cream, children · **What happens:** numb, sit, make, ask · **To what, where:** lap, needles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» 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 (Numbing cream, children), 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:6
# text = Numbing cream or cold spray, sitting on a parent's lap and distraction all make needles easier, and children can ask for them.
# 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): no change
1	Numbing	numb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	amod	_	_
2	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	distraction	distraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **numb** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Numbing cream or cold spray *not said here* |  |  | a parent's lap and distraction |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location |
| 3 | **make** | present | Numbing cream or cold spray | needles |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material needle=Product |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | children |  |  |  |  | for cream | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:6`.

**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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