The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 12
The cast saw's blade wobbles quickly back and forth instead of spinning, so it cuts plaster but not skin; on the arm it just feels warm and buzzy, though it sounds loud.
Who acts: blade, it · What happens: wobble, spin, cut, feel, sound · To what, where: plaster, arm
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 (blade, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 saw | det |
| 2 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | compound |
| 3 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blade | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 saw | case |
| 5 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wobbles | nsubj |
| 6 | wobbles | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 wobbles | advmod |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 wobbles | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forth | cc |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 back | conj |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 spinning | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wobbles | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cuts | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 cuts | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cuts | nsubj |
| 17 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 spinning | parataxis |
| 18 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cuts | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 skin | cc |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 skin | advmod |
| 21 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plaster | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 feels | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 arm | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 arm | det |
| 25 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 feels | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 feels | nsubj |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 feels | advmod |
| 28 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cuts | conj |
| 29 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 feels | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 buzzy | cc |
| 31 | buzzy | buzzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 warm | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sounds | punct |
| 33 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 35 sounds | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sounds | nsubj |
| 35 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 feels | advcl |
| 36 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sounds | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wobbles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wobble | present | the cast saw's blade | quickly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | the cast saw's blade not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut | present | blade | plaster but skin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material plaster=Product | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | it | the arm | warm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | sound | present | blade | loud property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:12.
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 ×2, 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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