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title: Dock leaves have no proven medicine in them; washing with soap and w… — Burns, sunburn and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dock leaves have no proven medicine in them; washing with soap and water and a cool cloth helps nettle stings. Who acts: Dock leaves. A sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Burns, sunburn and stings, sentence 14

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Dock leaves have no proven medicine in them; washing with soap and water and a cool cloth helps nettle stings.

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**Who acts:** Dock leaves · **What happens:** have, prove, wash, help · **To what, where:** proven medicine, nettle stings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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 (Dock leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.lesson:14
# text = Dock leaves have no proven medicine in them; washing with soap and water and a cool cloth helps nettle stings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.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	Dock	dock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	nsubj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Dock leaves | no proven medicine |  |  |  | in wheezing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 2 | **prove** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with soap and water and a cool cloth | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with soap=Instrument |
| 4 | **help** | present |  | nettle stings |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Beneficiary |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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