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title: Pressing a clean cloth firmly on a cut helps stop the bleeding. — First aid and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Pressing a clean cloth firmly on a cut helps stop the bleeding. Who acts: Pressing. 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 16

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Pressing a clean cloth firmly on a cut helps stop the bleeding.

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**Who acts:** Pressing · **What happens:** press, help, stop · **To what, where:** clean cloth, cut, bleeding

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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 (Pressing), 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:16
# text = Pressing a clean cloth firmly on a cut helps stop the bleeding.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **press** | gerund |  | a clean cloth |  | a cut |  | firmly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | Pressing |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | infinitive | Pressing *not said here* | the bleeding |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bleeding=Eventuality |

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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:16`.

**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, R8-pos-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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