The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 5
A cast is a hard shell of plaster or fibreglass that stops a broken bone moving while it heals.
Who acts: cast, hard shell · What happens: be, stop, break, move, heal · To what, where: hard shell, broken bone
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, hard shell), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cast | det |
| 2 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shell | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shell | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shell | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shell | amod |
| 6 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plaster | case |
| 8 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shell | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 fibreglass | cc |
| 10 | fibreglass | fibreglass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plaster | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stops | nsubj |
| 12 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shell | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bone | det |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bone | amod |
| 15 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stops | obj |
| 16 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stops | xcomp |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 heals | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heals | nsubj |
| 19 | heals | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 moving | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a cast | a hard shell | of plaster or fibreglass | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stop | present | a hard shell | a broken bone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | move | gerund | a hard shell not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | heal | present | cast | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:5.
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, R8-pos-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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