--- title: A scab is the body's own plaster: it protects the new skin underneat… — Doctors, cuts and grazes · tree and pragmatics description: A scab is the body's own plaster: it protects the new skin underneath, so it is best to leave it alone. Who acts: scab. 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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Doctors, cuts and grazes, sentence 2 A scab is the body's own plaster: it protects the new skin underneath, so it is best to leave it alone. **Who acts:** scab · **What happens:** be, protect, leave · **To what, where:** own plaster, new skin, skin 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 (scab), 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:2 # text = A scab is the body's own plaster: it protects the new skin underneath, so it is best to leave it alone. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scab scab NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 expl _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 parataxis _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 alone alone ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a scab | the body's own plaster | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **protect** | present | scab | the new skin | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | skin | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:2`. **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. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/1/) - next →: [Doctors, cuts and grazes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/)