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title: A stitch is a sharp pain below the ribs during running; its exact ca… — Warming up, stitches and cramp · tree and pragmatics
description: A stitch is a sharp pain below the ribs during running; its exact cause is not known, it leaves no harm, and slowing down, breathing out slowly and pressing on the spot help. Who acts: stitch, cause. A sentence of the lesson «Warming up, stitches and cramp» of the medicine course of Mova's primary s
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# Warming up, stitches and cramp, sentence 11

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A stitch is a sharp pain below the ribs during running; its exact cause is not known, it leaves no harm, and slowing down, breathing out slowly and pressing on the spot help.

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**Who acts:** stitch, cause · **What happens:** be, run, not know, leave, slow down, breathe out · **To what, where:** sharp pain, ribs, exact cause, harm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Warming up, stitches and cramp» 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 (stitch, cause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:037-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp.lesson:11
# text = A stitch is a sharp pain below the ribs during running; its exact cause is not known, it leaves no harm, and slowing down, breathing out slowly and pressing on the spot help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 037-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stitch	stitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	below	below	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
26	slowing	slow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	nsubj	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a stitch | a sharp pain |  | the ribs |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present · passive |  | stitch's exact cause |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **leave** | present | cause | no harm |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Theme |
| 5 | **slow down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **breathe out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **press** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on the spot | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on spot=Theme |
| 8 | **help** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **cause** |  | stitch |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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:037-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp.lesson:11`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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