Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 15
A scab is a dried blood clot protecting the new skin; picking it reopens the wound and can leave a bigger scar; an itchy scab is a normal part of healing.
Who acts: scab, dried blood clot, picking, itchy scab · What happens: dry, be, protect, pick, reopen, leave · To what, where: dried blood clot, new skin, skin, wound, bigger scar, normal part
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» 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 (scab, dried blood clot, picking, itchy scab), 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 scab | det |
| 2 | scab | scab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clot | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clot | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 clot | det |
| 5 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 clot | amod |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clot | compound |
| 7 | clot | clot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | protecting | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 clot | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 skin | amod |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 protecting | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 picking | punct |
| 13 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 reopens | csubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 picking | obj |
| 15 | reopens | reopen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clot | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wound | det |
| 17 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reopens | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | aux |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reopens | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 scar | det |
| 22 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 scar | amod |
| 23 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 part | punct |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 scab | det |
| 26 | itchy | itchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 scab | amod |
| 27 | scab | scab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 part | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 part | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 part | det |
| 30 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 part | amod |
| 31 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clot | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 healing | case |
| 33 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 part | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 clot | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a scab | a dried blood clot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | protect | gerund | a dried blood clot not said here | the new skin | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | pick | gerund | skin | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | reopen | present | picking | the wound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 6 | leave | can | picking not said here | a bigger scar | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | a itchy scab | a normal part | of healing | 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:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:15.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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