--- title: Do not pick a scab, because it protects the new skin underneath and… — Doctors, cuts and grazes · tree and pragmatics description: Do not pick a scab, because it protects the new skin underneath and picking can cause scars. Who acts: you, scab, picking. A sentence of the lesson «Doctors, cuts and grazes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Doctors, cuts and grazes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/) / 10 # Doctors, cuts and grazes, sentence 10 Do not pick a scab, because it protects the new skin underneath and picking can cause scars. **Who acts:** you, scab, picking · **What happens:** not pick, protect, cause · **To what, where:** scab, new skin, scars This is a sentence of the lesson «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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 (you, scab, picking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.lesson:10 # text = Do not pick a scab, because it protects the new skin underneath and picking can cause scars. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.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 ×3 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 pick pick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 scab scab NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 13 underneath underneath NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 picking picking NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 scars scar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **pick** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | a scab | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scab=Patient | | 2 | **protect** | present | scab | the new skin | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cause** | can | picking | scars | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition scar=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:083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.lesson:10`. **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 ×3. **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: [Doctors, cuts and grazes, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/9/) - next →: [Doctors, cuts and grazes, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/)