The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 10
An arm keeps swelling for a day or two after a break, and a tight cast can squeeze blood vessels and nerves.
Who acts: arm, tight cast · What happens: keep, swell, squeeze · To what, where: blood vessels
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 (arm, tight cast), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 arm | det |
| 2 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | swelling | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swelling | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 two | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | conj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 break | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 break | det |
| 12 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 squeeze | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 squeeze | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cast | det |
| 16 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cast | amod |
| 17 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 squeeze | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 squeeze | aux |
| 19 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keeps | conj |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vessels | compound |
| 21 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 squeeze | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 nerves | cc |
| 23 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 vessels | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a arm | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swell | gerund | a arm not said here | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | squeeze | can | a tight cast | blood vessels and nerves | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=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:002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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