--- title: It itches because the skin underneath is sweaty and old skin cells c… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics description: It itches because the skin underneath is sweaty and old skin cells cannot flake off; the itch is a nuisance, not a sign of trouble. Who acts: cast, skin underneath, old skin cells, itch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cast, skin underneath, old skin cells, itch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.lesson:1 # text = It itches because the skin underneath is sweaty and old skin cells cannot flake off; the itch is a nuisance, not a sign of trouble. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.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 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 itches itch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 5 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 underneath underneath NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 sweaty sweaty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 flake flake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 itch itch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 nuisance nuisance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **itch** | present | cast | | | | | | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | skin underneath | | | | | sweaty *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **flake off** | can | old skin cells | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the itch | a nuisance and a sign of trouble | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sign** | | | trouble | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:medicine:002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.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/). - ← previous: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/0/) - next →: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/)