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title: To stop a nosebleed, sit down, lean forward and pinch the soft part… — Nosebleeds and bumps on the head · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: tipping. A sentence of the lesson «Nosebleeds and bumps on the head» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Nosebleeds and bumps on the head, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** tipping · **What happens:** stop, sit down, lean, pinch, tip back, send down · **To what, where:** nosebleed, soft part, head, blood

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nosebleeds and bumps on the head» 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 (tipping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:005-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 005-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nosebleed	nosebleed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lean	lean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
10	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pinch	pinch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	tipping	tip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	csubj	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod
29	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | a nosebleed |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality nosebleed=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sit down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lean** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pinch** | infinitive |  | the soft part of the nose |  |  | minute |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 5 | **tip back** | gerund |  | your head |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 6 | **send down** | present | tipping | the blood |  |  |  | your throat *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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