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title: Pressing firmly on a bleeding cut for about 10 minutes and raising i… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics
description: Pressing firmly on a bleeding cut for about 10 minutes and raising it helps a clot form; lifting the cloth to look starts the bleeding again. Who acts: Pressing, lifting. A sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 7

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Pressing firmly on a bleeding cut for about 10 minutes and raising it helps a clot form; lifting the cloth to look starts the bleeding again.

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**Who acts:** Pressing, lifting · **What happens:** press, raise, help, lift, look, start · **To what, where:** graze, clot form, cloth, bleeding

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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 (Pressing, lifting), 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:7
# text = Pressing firmly on a bleeding cut for about 10 minutes and raising it helps a clot form; lifting the cloth to look starts the bleeding again.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	clot	clot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | gerund |  |  |  |  | minute | on a bleeding cut; firmly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on cut=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund |  | graze |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | Pressing | a clot form |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **lift** | gerund |  | the cloth |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **start** | present | lifting | the bleeding |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bleeding=Eventuality |

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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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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