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title: A hot drink can badly scald a small child's thin skin even 15 minute… — Burns, sunburn and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: A hot drink can badly scald a small child's thin skin even 15 minutes after it was made; any scald on a small child needs 999 or A&E. Who acts: hot drink, scald. A sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Burns, sunburn and stings, sentence 9

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A hot drink can badly scald a small child's thin skin even 15 minutes after it was made; any scald on a small child needs 999 or A&E.

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**Who acts:** hot drink, scald · **What happens:** scald, make, need · **To what, where:** thin skin, drink, 999

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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 (hot drink, scald), 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:9
# text = A hot drink can badly scald a small child's thin skin even 15 minutes after it was made; any scald on a small child needs 999 or A&E.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	scald	scald	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	scald	scald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
28	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	A	A	PROPN	NNP	_	28	conj	_	_
31	&	&	PROPN	NNP	_	30	flat	_	_
32	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
```

## 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 | **scald** | can | a hot drink | a small child's thin skin |  |  | minute | badly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument skin=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | drink |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **need** | present | any scald on a small child | 999 or A |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 999=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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.lesson:9`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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