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title: When giving first aid, first make sure you are safe yourself. — First aid and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: When giving first aid, first make sure you are safe yourself. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «First aid and safety» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# First aid and safety, sentence 10

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When giving first aid, first make sure you are safe yourself.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, make, be · **To what, where:** first aid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «First aid and safety» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:039-first-aid-and-safety.lesson:10
# text = When giving first aid, first make sure you are safe yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 039-first-aid-and-safety.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	2	mark	_	_
2	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	appos	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund | you *not said here* | first aid |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first, sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | safe *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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**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:039-first-aid-and-safety.lesson:10`.

**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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