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title: A dead leg (Kian in Glasgow yells «Ma leg's deid!», Scots for dead)… — Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, win… · tree and pragmatics
description: A dead leg (Kian in Glasgow yells «Ma leg's deid!», Scots for dead) is a thigh muscle squashed against the bone so tiny vessels bleed inside it; it needs rest and cold, not hard rubbing. Who acts: Kian, dead leg, tiny vessels, leg. A sentence of the lesson «Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead leg
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# Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop, sentence 2

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A dead leg (Kian in Glasgow yells «Ma leg's deid!», Scots for dead) is a thigh muscle squashed against the bone so tiny vessels bleed inside it; it needs rest and cold, not hard rubbing.

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**Who acts:** Kian, dead leg, tiny vessels, leg · **What happens:** yell, be, squash, bleed, need · **To what, where:** leg deid, thigh muscle, bone, leg, rest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop» 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 (Kian, dead leg, tiny vessels, leg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:046-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded.lesson:2
# text = A dead leg (Kian in Glasgow yells «Ma leg's deid!», Scots for dead) is a thigh muscle squashed against the bone so tiny vessels bleed inside it; it needs rest and cold, not hard rubbing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 046-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Kian	Kian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
8	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	deid	deid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	bleed	bleed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
38	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Kian in Glasgow *not said here* | leg deid |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deid=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a dead leg | a thigh muscle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **squash** | participle |  | a thigh muscle *not said here* |  | the bone |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against bone=Location |
| 4 | **bleed** | present | tiny vessels | the bone *not said here* |  | leg |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bone=Source |
| 5 | **need** | present | leg | rest and hard rubbing |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=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:046-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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