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title: In eczema the skin barrier doesn't hold water well, so the skin drie… — Eczema and other skin troubles · tree and pragmatics
description: In eczema the skin barrier doesn't hold water well, so the skin dries, cracks and lets irritants in. Who acts: skin barrier, 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 5

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In eczema the skin barrier doesn't hold water well, so the skin dries, cracks and lets irritants in.

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**Who acts:** skin barrier, skin · **What happens:** not hold, dry, crack, let in · **To what, where:** water, eczema, irritants

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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 barrier, 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:5
# text = In eczema the skin barrier doesn't hold water well, so the skin dries, cracks and lets irritants in.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	eczema	eczema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	barrier	barrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cracks	crack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
20	irritants	irritant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **hold** | present · do-support | the skin barrier | water |  | eczema |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in eczema=Location |
| 2 | **dry** | present | the skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **crack** | present | the skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let in** | present | the skin *not said here* | irritants |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent irritant=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:medicine:015-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles.lesson:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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