The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 6
Skin under a cast itches because it is sweaty and dead skin cells cannot flake off.
Who acts: Skin, skin cells · What happens: itch, be, not flake off
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 (Skin, skin cells), 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 | Skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 itches | nsubj |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 cast | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cast | det |
| 4 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Skin | nmod |
| 5 | itches | itch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 sweaty | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sweaty | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sweaty | cop |
| 9 | sweaty | sweaty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 itches | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dead | cc |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sweaty | conj |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cells | compound |
| 13 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flake | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 flake | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 flake | advmod |
| 16 | flake | flake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sweaty | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 flake | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 itches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | itch | present | Skin under a cast | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | skin | sweaty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | skin not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not flake off | can | skin cells | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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:6.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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