--- title: Deep or gaping cuts are closed with stitches, medical skin glue or p… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics description: Deep or gaping cuts are closed with stitches, medical skin glue or paper strips, after the area is numbed; edges held together heal better and leave a smaller scar. Who acts: edges. 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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 (edges), 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:8 # text = Deep or gaping cuts are closed with stitches, medical skin glue or paper strips, after the area is numbed; edges held together heal better and leave a smaller scar. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 gaping gape VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 4 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 medical medical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 after after SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 numbed numb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 26 heal heal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 27 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 scar scar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gape** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **close** | present · passive | | Deep cuts | | | | with stitches and medical skin glue or paper and strips | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with stitch=Theme | | 3 | **numb** | present · passive | | the area | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **hold together** | participle | | edges *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **heal** | infinitive | edges | | | | | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **leave** | infinitive | edges *not said here* | a smaller scar | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Theme | 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:8`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/7/) - next →: [Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/)