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title: A blow can burst a small blood vessel on the white of the eye; the r… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: A blow can burst a small blood vessel on the white of the eye; the red patch looks dramatic but usually heals in two weeks. Who acts: blow, red patch. A sentence of the lesson «Sore throats, ears and eyes» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 14

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A blow can burst a small blood vessel on the white of the eye; the red patch looks dramatic but usually heals in two weeks.

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**Who acts:** blow, red patch · **What happens:** burst, look, heal · **To what, where:** small blood vessel, white

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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 (blow, red patch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:14
# text = A blow can burst a small blood vessel on the white of the eye; the red patch looks dramatic but usually heals in two weeks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	heals	heal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | can | a blow | a small blood vessel |  | the white of the eye |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vessel=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | the red patch |  |  |  |  | dramatic *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **heal** | present | the red patch *not said here* |  |  |  | week | usually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:14`.

**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. **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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