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title: When you graze your knee in the playground, clean running water wash… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics
description: When you graze your knee in the playground, clean running water washing out the grit does the main job; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes. Who acts: you, clean running water. A sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» of the medicine course of Mova's primary scho
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# Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 1

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When you graze your knee in the playground, clean running water washing out the grit does the main job; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes.

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**Who acts:** you, clean running water · **What happens:** graze, run, wash out, do, sting, not need · **To what, where:** knee, playground, grit, main job, stinging antiseptic

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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 (you, clean running water), 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:1
# text = When you graze your knee in the playground, clean running water washing out the grit does the main job; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes.
# 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	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	17	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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	grit	grit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	amod	_	_
23	antiseptic	antiseptic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	grazes	graze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 |  | the playground |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Experiencer |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wash out** | gerund | clean running water *not said here* | the grit |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grit=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | present | clean running water | the main job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **need** | present · passive |  | stinging antiseptic |  |  |  | for most grazes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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): 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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