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title: Rinsing a graze under clean running water washes out grit; stinging… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics
description: Rinsing a graze under clean running water washes out grit; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes. Who acts: Rinsing. 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 6

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Rinsing a graze under clean running water washes out grit; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes.

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**Who acts:** Rinsing · **What happens:** rinse, run, wash out, sting, not need · **To what, where:** graze, clean running water, grit, 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 (Rinsing), 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:6
# text = Rinsing a graze under clean running water washes out grit; 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rinsing	rinse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	graze	graze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
8	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	grit	grit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
12	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	amod	_	_
13	antiseptic	antiseptic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	grazes	graze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **rinse** | gerund |  | a graze |  | clean running water |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent graze=Source |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wash out** | present | Rinsing | grit |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grit=Patient |
| 4 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **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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**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:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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