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title: A bump on the head swells because the scalp has many blood vessels t… — Nosebleeds and bumps on the head · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: bump, scalp, many blood vessels, size. A sentence of the lesson «Nosebleeds and bumps on the head» of the medicine course of Mova's pri
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# Nosebleeds and bumps on the head, sentence 8

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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.

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**Who acts:** bump, scalp, many blood vessels, size, injury · **What happens:** swell, have, leak, not show, be · **To what, where:** many blood vessels, skin · **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 (bump, scalp, many blood vessels, size), 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:8
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bump	bump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	leak	leak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bump	bump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
29	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **swell** | present | a bump on the head |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | present | the scalp | many blood vessels |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient |
| 3 | **leak** | present | many blood vessels |  |  | the skin |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **not** **show** | present · do-support | the size of the bump |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | the injury |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | tree rules |

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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): no change. **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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