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title: Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out, and a cut or graze is a ho… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics
description: Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out, and a cut or graze is a hole in that wall. Who acts: skin, wall, cut. A sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 0

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Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out, and a cut or graze is a hole in that wall.

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**Who acts:** skin, wall, cut · **What happens:** be, keep out · **To what, where:** wall, germs, hole

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» 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 (skin, wall, cut), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:0
# text = Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out, and a cut or graze is a hole in that wall.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.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	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	graze	graze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Your skin | a wall and a hole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep out** | present | a wall and a hole | germs |  |  |  | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a cut or graze | a hole |  | that wall |  |  | 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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**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:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:0`.

**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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