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title: Grandma's old rule says stay awake after a bump, but doctors now say… — Nosebleeds and bumps on the head · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: old rule, doctors, sleeping, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «Nosebleeds and bumps on the head» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school 
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# Nosebleeds and bumps on the head, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** old rule, doctors, sleeping, grown up, Grandma · **What happens:** say, stay, be, check, wake, rule · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old rule, doctors, sleeping, grown up), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
7	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bump	bump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
19	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	wake	wake	VERB	VB	_	25	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandma's old rule |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | after a bump | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | doctors |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | sleeping |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | present · perfect | a grown up | you |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **wake** | can | a grown up *not said here* | you |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 7 | **rule** |  | Grandma |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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