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title: Scratching chickenpox spots can cause infection and scars, so keep n… — Food, drinks and feeling ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Scratching chickenpox spots can cause infection and scars, so keep nails short and use the cooling lotion an adult gives you. Who acts: Scratching, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feeling ill» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Food, drinks and feeling ill, sentence 16

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Scratching chickenpox spots can cause infection and scars, so keep nails short and use the cooling lotion an adult gives you.

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**Who acts:** Scratching, adult · **What happens:** scratch, cause, keep, use, give · **To what, where:** chickenpox spots, infection, nails, cooling lotion, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feeling ill» of the everyday 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 (Scratching, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.lesson:16
# text = Scratching chickenpox spots can cause infection and scars, so keep nails short and use the cooling lotion an adult gives you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	cooling	cooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lotion	lotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | gerund |  | chickenpox spots |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | can | Scratching | infection and scars |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive |  | nails |  |  |  | short *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive |  | the cooling lotion |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lotion=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | present | a adult | the cooling lotion *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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.

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**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:081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.lesson:16`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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