--- title: Nosebleeds and bumps on the head — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Nosebleeds and bumps on the head», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The front of your nose is lined with lots of tiny blood vessels close to the surface, so dry air, picking or a knock can make them bleed --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Nosebleeds and bumps on the head # Nosebleeds and bumps on the head Lesson 5 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/0/) — The front of your nose is lined with lots of tiny blood vessels close to the surface, so dry air, picking or a knock can make them bleed. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/1/) — To stop a nosebleed, sit down, lean forward and pinch the soft part of the nose for 10 to 15 minutes; tipping your head back sends the blood down your throat. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/2/) — Your brain floats inside your skull, and a hard knock, like a tackle in rugby, can shake it: that is concussion, and you don't have to be knocked out to have it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/3/) — Grandma's old rule says stay awake after a bump, but doctors now say sleeping is fine once a grown-up has checked you and can wake you easily. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/4/) — A bike helmet that cracks in a crash did its job: it broke so your head didn't. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/5/) — To stop a nosebleed, sit leaning forward and pinch the soft part of the nose for 10 to 15 minutes, breathing through the mouth. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/6/) — Tipping the head back is wrong, because blood runs down the throat and can make you sick. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/7/) — Frequent nosebleeds in children usually come from one fragile vessel, picking or dry air, such as heated air in winter, and are rarely serious; most children grow out of them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/8/) — A bump on the head swells because the scalp has many blood vessels that leak under the skin; the size of the bump does not show how serious the injury is. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/9/) — Concussion is a brain injury from the brain being shaken; it can cause headache, dizziness, sickness, confusion and memory gaps. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/10/) — You can have concussion without being knocked out. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/12/) — Doctors now say it is fine to sleep after a mild head bump, as long as a grown-up has checked you and can wake you easily. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/13/) — Warning signs after a head injury include being hard to wake, being sick again and again, a worsening headache, confusion, a fit, or clear fluid from the nose or ears. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/14/) — Anyone knocked out, even briefly, should be checked by a doctor; hospitals sometimes do a CT scan, a special 3D X-ray, of the head. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/15/) — A bike helmet is built to crack and crush to soak up the force, and it should be replaced after any big crash. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/16/) — A crooked nose is checked after a few days, when the swelling has gone down. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/17/) — A knocked-out adult tooth can be rinsed briefly and pushed back or kept in milk on the way to a dentist; a baby tooth is not put back, and a chipped or knocked-out tooth should be seen by a dentist the same day. - ← previous: [Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/) - next →: [Burns, sunburn and stings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)