The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 3
The scary saw that takes it off does not spin; its blade wobbles fast back and forth, which cuts hard plaster but only jiggles soft skin.
Who acts: scary saw, blade · What happens: take off, not spin, wobble, cut, jiggle · To what, where: saw, hard plaster, soft skin
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 (scary saw, blade), 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 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | amod |
| 3 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spin | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | acl:relcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 takes | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 takes | compound:prt |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spin | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 spin | advmod |
| 10 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 back | punct |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blade | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wobbles | nsubj |
| 14 | wobbles | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spin | parataxis |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 wobbles | advmod |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 wobbles | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 forth | cc |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 back | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cuts | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 cuts | nsubj |
| 21 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spin | conj |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plaster | amod |
| 23 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cuts | obj |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 jiggles | cc |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 jiggles | advmod |
| 26 | jiggles | jiggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cuts | conj |
| 27 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 skin | amod |
| 28 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jiggles | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | present | the scary saw | saw | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not spin | present · do-support | the scary saw | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wobble | present | saw's blade | fast property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut | present | hard plaster | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plaster=Product | |||||
| 5 | jiggle | present | soft skin | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=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:3.
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, 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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