Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 8

A cast is kept dry, and you tell an adult if the arm hurts more, because the cast helps the bone heal.

Who acts: you, arm, cast, bone · What happens: keep, tell, hurt, help, heal · To what, where: cast, adult, bone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday 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, arm, cast, bone), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cast	det
2	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 hurts	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arm	det
14	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hurts	nsubj
15	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	advcl
16	more	more	ADV	_	15 hurts	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 helps	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 helps	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cast	det
20	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 helps	nsubj
21	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bone	det
23	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 helps	obj
24	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 helps	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		a cast		dry property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	you		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	hurt a condition, not said to happen	present	the arm				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	help	present	the cast	the bone			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bone=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	heal	infinitive	the bone not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:8.

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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