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title: A cut that bleeds a lot needs firm pressure with a clean cloth for a… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics
description: A cut that bleeds a lot needs firm pressure with a clean cloth for about 10 minutes without peeping, so the blood can clot and plug the hole. Who acts: cut, blood. A sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 2

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A cut that bleeds a lot needs firm pressure with a clean cloth for about 10 minutes without peeping, so the blood can clot and plug the hole.

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**Who acts:** cut, blood · **What happens:** bleed, need, peep, clot, plug · **To what, where:** lot, firm pressure, 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 (cut, blood), 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:2
# text = A cut that bleeds a lot needs firm pressure with a clean cloth for about 10 minutes without peeping, so the blood can clot and plug the hole.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bleeds	bleed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
7	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	clot	clot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	plug	plug	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **bleed** | present | a cut | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **need** | present | a cut | firm pressure |  |  | minute | with a clean cloth | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pressure=Theme |
| 3 | **peep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **clot** | can | the blood |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **plug** | infinitive | the blood *not said here* | the hole |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination |

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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:2`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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