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title: Some stitches dissolve by themselves; others come out after about a… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics
description: Some stitches dissolve by themselves; others come out after about a week, which feels like a tug. Who acts: stitches, others, week. 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 cla
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# Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 9

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Some stitches dissolve by themselves; others come out after about a week, which feels like a tug.

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**Who acts:** stitches, others, week · **What happens:** dissolve, come out, feel

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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 (stitches, others, week), 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:9
# text = Some stitches dissolve by themselves; others come out after about a week, which feels like a tug.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tug	tug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | present | some stitches |  |  |  |  | by stitches *= stitch* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come out** | present | others |  |  |  | week | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** | present | a week |  |  |  |  | like a tug | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like tug=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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**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.

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