--- title: If your writing arm is in a cast, school can help with a scribe (som… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics description: If your writing arm is in a cast, school can help with a scribe (someone who writes for you), a laptop or more speaking work. Who acts: writing arm, school. 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 --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 17 If your writing arm is in a cast, school can help with a scribe (someone who writes for you), a laptop or more speaking work. **Who acts:** writing arm, school · **What happens:** be, help, write, speak · **To what, where:** cast, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (writing arm, school), 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:17 # text = If your writing arm is in a cast, school can help with a scribe (someone who writes for you), a laptop or more speaking work. # 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 If if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 scribe scribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 appos _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 laptop laptop NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 conj _ _ 28 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 29 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your writing arm | | | a cast | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | can | school | | | | | with a scribe and a laptop | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with scribe=Theme | | 3 | **write** | present | | | | | | for you | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | work | | | | | tree rules | 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:17`. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/16/) - next →: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/)