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title: Fingers that go blue, white, cold or numb, or pain that gets much wo… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics
description: Fingers that go blue, white, cold or numb, or pain that gets much worse in a cast, need a doctor straight away. Who acts: Fingers, pain. A sentence of the lesson «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 11

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Fingers that go blue, white, cold or numb, or pain that gets much worse in a cast, need a doctor straight away.

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**Who acts:** Fingers, pain · **What happens:** go, get, need · **To what, where:** cast, doctor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» 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 (Fingers, pain), 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:11
# text = Fingers that go blue, white, cold or numb, or pain that gets much worse in a cast, need a doctor straight away.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	numb	numb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Fingers or pain |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | pain |  |  | a cast |  | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **need** | present | Fingers or pain | a doctor |  |  |  | away *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=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:002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.lesson:11`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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