--- title: The scary saw that takes it off does not spin; its blade wobbles fas… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics description: The scary saw that takes it off does not spin; its blade wobbles fast back and forth, which cuts hard plaster but only jiggles soft skin. Who acts: scary saw, blade. 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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 (scary saw, blade), 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:3 # text = The scary saw that takes it off does not spin; its blade wobbles fast back and forth, which cuts hard plaster but only jiggles soft skin. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 saw saw NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wobbles wobble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 15 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 forth forth ADV RB _ 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 jiggles jiggle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 27 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take off** | present | the scary saw | saw | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **not** **spin** | present · do-support | the scary saw | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wobble** | present | saw's blade | | | | | fast *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cut** | present | | hard plaster | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plaster=Product | | 5 | **jiggle** | present | | soft skin | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Theme | 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:3`. **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, 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/2/) - next →: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/)