The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 17
If your writing arm is in a cast, school can help with a scribe (someone who writes for you), a laptop or more speaking work.
Who acts: writing arm, school · What happens: be, help, write, speak · To what, where: cast, work · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (writing arm, school), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 cast | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arm | compound |
| 4 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cast | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cast | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cast | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cast | det |
| 8 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cast | punct |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 scribe | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scribe | det |
| 15 | scribe | scribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | obl |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 someone | punct |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 scribe | appos |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 writes | nsubj |
| 19 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 someone | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 writes | obl |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 writes | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 laptop | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 laptop | det |
| 25 | laptop | laptop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scribe | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 more | cc |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 someone | conj |
| 28 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 someone | acl |
| 29 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 speaking | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | your writing arm | a cast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | can | school | with a scribe and a laptop | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with scribe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write | present | for you | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | work | tree rules |
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:17.
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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