--- title: Never push a pencil or ruler inside: it can scratch the skin and sta… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics description: Never push a pencil or ruler inside: it can scratch the skin and start an infection nobody can see. Who acts: you, itch, nobody. 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 every clau --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 2 Never push a pencil or ruler inside: it can scratch the skin and start an infection nobody can see. **Who acts:** you, itch, nobody · **What happens:** not push, scratch, start, see · **To what, where:** pencil, skin, infection 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 (you, itch, nobody), 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:2 # text = Never push a pencil or ruler inside: it can scratch the skin and start an infection nobody can see. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 push push VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 inside inside ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **push** | imperative | you *not said here* | a pencil or ruler | | | | inside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme | | 2 | **scratch** | can | itch | the skin | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 3 | **start** | infinitive | itch *not said here* | a infection | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Eventuality | | 4 | **see** | can | nobody | a infection *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer infection=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:2`. **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): 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/1/) - next →: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/)