Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 3
Deep or gaping cuts heal better when the edges are held together by stitches, medical glue or paper strips.
Who acts: Deep cuts, stitches · What happens: gape, heal, hold together · To what, where: edges
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» 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 (Deep cuts, stitches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cuts | amod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 gaping | cc |
| 3 | gaping | gape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Deep | conj |
| 4 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heal | nsubj |
| 5 | heal | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 heal | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 held | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 edges | det |
| 9 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 held | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | aux:pass |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heal | advcl |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 held | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 stitches | case |
| 14 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 held | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glue | punct |
| 16 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 glue | amod |
| 17 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stitches | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 strips | cc |
| 19 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strips | compound |
| 20 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stitches | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gape | gerund | Deep cuts not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | heal | present | Deep cuts | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold together | present · passive | stitches and medical glue or paper strips | the edges | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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.
Licence: CC 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:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
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