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title: Scratching damages the skin more, which makes it itch more: the itch… — Eczema and other skin troubles · tree and pragmatics
description: Scratching damages the skin more, which makes it itch more: the itch-scratch cycle, worst at night. Who acts: skin. A sentence of the lesson «Eczema and other skin troubles» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Eczema and other skin troubles, sentence 1

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Scratching damages the skin more, which makes it itch more: the itch-scratch cycle, worst at night.

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**Who acts:** skin · **What happens:** scratch, damage, make, itch · **To what, where:** skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eczema and other skin troubles» of the medicine 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 (skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:015-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles.lesson:1
# text = Scratching damages the skin more, which makes it itch more: the itch-scratch cycle, worst at night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 015-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles.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	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	damages	damage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	itch	itch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	itch	itch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	scratch	scratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	appos	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **damage** | present |  | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **itch** | infinitive | skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:medicine:015-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles.lesson:1`.

**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/).

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