Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 7

Pressing firmly on a bleeding cut for about 10 minutes and raising it helps a clot form; lifting the cloth to look starts the bleeding again.

Who acts: Pressing, lifting · What happens: press, raise, help, lift, look, start · To what, where: graze, clot form, cloth, bleeding

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 (Pressing, lifting), 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	Pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 helps	csubj
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	1 Pressing	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 cut	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cut	det
5	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	compound
6	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pressing	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 10	advmod
9	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pressing	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 raising	cc
12	raising	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Pressing	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 raising	obj
14	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 form	det
16	clot	clot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 form	compound
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 helps	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lifting	punct
19	lifting	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 starts	csubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cloth	det
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lifting	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lifting	advcl
24	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 helps	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bleeding	det
26	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 starts	obj
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 starts	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 helps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	press	gerund			minute	on a bleeding cut; firmly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on cut=Theme
2	raise	gerund		graze			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	help	present	Pressing	a clot form			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Beneficiary
4	lift	gerund		the cloth			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	start	present	lifting	the bleeding	again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bleeding=Eventuality

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:7.

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.

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