Eczema and other skin troubles, sentence 8
Scratching damages the skin so it itches more, the itch-scratch cycle; short nails and cotton clothes help.
Who acts: skin, short nails · What happens: scratch, damage, itch, help · To what, where: skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eczema and other skin troubles» 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 (skin, short nails), 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 | Scratching | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 damages | nsubj |
| 2 | damages | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 skin | det |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 damages | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 itches | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 itches | nsubj |
| 7 | itches | itch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 damages | advcl |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 itches | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 damages | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cycle | det |
| 11 | itch | itch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scratch | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 itch | punct |
| 13 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cycle | compound |
| 14 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Scratching | appos |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 16 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nails | amod |
| 17 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 help | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 clothes | cc |
| 19 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clothes | compound |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 nails | conj |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 damages | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 damages | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | gerund | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | damage | present | the skin | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | |||||
| 3 | itch | present | skin | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | help | present | short nails and cotton clothes | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:015-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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