--- title: Scratching damages the skin so it itches more, the itch-scratch cycl… — Eczema and other skin troubles · tree and pragmatics description: Scratching damages the skin so it itches more, the itch-scratch cycle; short nails and cotton clothes help. Who acts: skin, short nails. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/8/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Eczema and other skin troubles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/) / 8 # Eczema and other skin troubles, sentence 8 Scratching damages the skin so it itches more, the itch-scratch cycle; short nails and cotton clothes help. **Who acts:** skin, short nails · **What happens:** scratch, damage, itch, help · **To what, where:** skin 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, short nails), 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:8 # text = Scratching damages the skin so it itches more, the itch-scratch cycle; short nails and cotton clothes help. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 itches itch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 itch itch NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 cycle cycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 16 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 17 conj _ _ 21 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **itch** | present | skin | | | | | | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **help** | present | short nails and cotton clothes | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:medicine:015-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles.lesson:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Eczema and other skin troubles, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/7/) - next →: [Eczema and other skin troubles, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/)