--- title: The cast saw's blade wobbles quickly back and forth instead of spinn… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics description: The cast saw's blade wobbles quickly back and forth instead of spinning, so it cuts plaster but not skin; on the arm it just feels warm and buzzy, though it sounds loud. Who acts: blade, it. A sentence of the lesson «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» of the medicine course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/12/) [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/) / [The cast: itching, signing and the saw](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/) / 12 # The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 12 The cast saw's blade wobbles quickly back and forth instead of spinning, so it cuts plaster but not skin; on the arm it just feels warm and buzzy, though it sounds loud. **Who acts:** blade, it · **What happens:** wobble, spin, cut, feel, sound · **To what, where:** plaster, arm 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 (blade, it), 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:12 # text = The cast saw's blade wobbles quickly back and forth instead of spinning, so it cuts plaster but not skin; on the arm it just feels warm and buzzy, though it sounds loud. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 saw saw NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wobbles wobble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 forth forth ADV RB _ 8 conj _ _ 11 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 18 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 buzzy buzzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:parataxis 36 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wobble** | present | the cast saw's blade | | | | | quickly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spin** | gerund | the cast saw's blade *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cut** | present | blade | plaster but skin | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material plaster=Product | | 4 | **feel** | present | it | | | the arm | | warm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **sound** | present | blade | | | | | loud *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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 ×2, 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: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/11/) - next →: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/)