--- title: A boy in Colorado kept his cast in the bath because it felt itchy; t… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Colorado kept his cast in the bath because it felt itchy; the skin underneath got sore and infected, and the cast had to be cut off and done again. Who acts: boy, cast, skin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, cast, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:17 # text = A boy in Colorado kept his cast in the bath because it felt itchy; the skin underneath got sore and infected, and the cast had to be cut off and done again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Colorado Colorado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 14 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 infected infected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | a boy in Colorado | boy's cast | | the bath | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cast=Theme in bath=Location | | 2 | **feel** | past | cast | | | | | itchy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **get** | past | the skin | | | | | sore, underneath *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **have** | past | the cast | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cut off** | to-infinitive · passive | the cast *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» | | 6 | **do** | participle | the cast *not said here* | | | | again | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:17`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Helpers in town and building sites, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/16/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)