The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 9
A plaster cast that gets soaked goes soft and weak, and the damp padding can make the skin sore, so the fracture clinic should be phoned.
Who acts: plaster cast, damp padding · What happens: soak, go, make, phone · To what, where: plaster cast, skin, fracture clinic
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 (plaster cast, damp padding), 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 | 3 cast | det |
| 2 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | compound |
| 3 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 soaked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 soaked | aux:pass |
| 6 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cast | acl:relcl |
| 7 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 goes | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 weak | cc |
| 10 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soft | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 padding | det |
| 14 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 padding | amod |
| 15 | padding | padding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 goes | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skin | det |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 phoned | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 phoned | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 clinic | det |
| 24 | fracture | fracture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clinic | compound |
| 25 | clinic | clinic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 phoned | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 phoned | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 phoned | aux:pass |
| 28 | phoned | phone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 make | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak | present · passive | a plaster cast | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | go | present | a plaster cast | soft property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | can | the damp padding | the skin | sore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skin=Product | |||
| 4 | phone | should · passive | the fracture clinic | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:9.
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.
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