The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 1

It itches because the skin underneath is sweaty and old skin cells cannot flake off; the itch is a nuisance, not a sign of trouble.

Who acts: cast, skin underneath, old skin cells, itch · What happens: itch, be, not flake off, sign · To what, where: nuisance, trouble

This is a sentence of the lesson «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» 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 (cast, skin underneath, old skin cells, itch), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 itches	nsubj
2	itches	itch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 sweaty	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 underneath	compound
6	underneath	underneath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweaty	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sweaty	cop
8	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 itches	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flake	cc
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cells	amod
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cells	compound
12	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flake	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 flake	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 flake	advmod
15	flake	flake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sweaty	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 flake	compound:prt
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 nuisance	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 itch	det
19	itch	itch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nuisance	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 nuisance	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 nuisance	det
22	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 itches	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sign	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 sign	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sign	det
26	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nuisance	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 trouble	case
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sign	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 itches	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	itch	present	cast			vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	skin underneath		sweaty property	tree rules
3	not flake off	can	old skin cells			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	the itch	a nuisance and a sign of trouble		tree rules
5	sign			trouble		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:medicine:002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.lesson:1.

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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