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title: "It's just a scratch" about a cut that won't stop bleeding is downpl… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "It's just a scratch" about a cut that won't stop bleeding is downplaying a real injury; it needs pressure and an adult. Who acts: three, cut, scratch. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 19

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"It's just a scratch" about a cut that won't stop bleeding is downplaying a real injury; it needs pressure and an adult.

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**Who acts:** three, cut, scratch · **What happens:** be, not stop, bleeding, downplay, need · **To what, where:** scratch, real injury, pressure

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world 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 (three, cut, scratch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:19
# text = "It's just a scratch" about a cut that won't stop bleeding is downplaying a real injury; it needs pressure and an adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	scratch	scratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	bleeding	bleeding	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	downplaying	downplay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | three | a scratch |  |  |  | about a cut | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | future | a cut |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bleeding** | gerund | a cut *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **downplay** | present · progressive | a scratch | a real injury |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present | three | pressure and a adult |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pressure=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:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:19`.

**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): 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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