--- title: A cast is kept dry, and you tell an adult if the arm hurts more, bec… — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics description: A cast is kept dry, and you tell an adult if the arm hurts more, because the cast helps the bone heal. Who acts: you, arm, cast, bone. 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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 (you, arm, cast, bone), 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:8 # text = A cast is kept dry, and you tell an adult if the arm hurts more, because the cast helps the bone heal. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 14 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 16 more more ADV RBR _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 heal heal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present · passive | | a cast | | | | dry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 3 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the arm | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **help** | present | the cast | the bone | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent bone=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **heal** | infinitive | the bone *not said here* | | | | | | 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](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:8`. **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. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/7/) - next →: [Helpers in town and building sites, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/)