--- title: Some people faint at the sight of blood because their heart slows an… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics description: Some people faint at the sight of blood because their heart slows and blood pressure drops; it is a reflex, not weakness. Who acts: people, heart, blood pressure, pressure. 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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 (people, heart, blood pressure, pressure), 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:16 # text = Some people faint at the sight of blood because their heart slows and blood pressure drops; it is a reflex, not weakness. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 faint faint VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 14 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 reflex reflex NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 weakness weakness NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **faint** | present | some people | | | | | at the sight of blood | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sight=Stimulus | | 2 | **slow** | present | people's heart | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **drop** | present | blood pressure | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | pressure | a reflex and weakness | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sight** | | | blood | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/15/) - next →: [Nosebleeds and bumps on the head, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/)