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title: When the cast comes off, the arm looks thin, hairy and smelly, but m… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics
description: When the cast comes off, the arm looks thin, hairy and smelly, but muscle and skin come back with normal use and a bit of physio. Who acts: cast, arm, muscle. 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 an
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# The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 4

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When the cast comes off, the arm looks thin, hairy and smelly, but muscle and skin come back with normal use and a bit of physio.

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**Who acts:** cast, arm, muscle · **What happens:** come off, look, come back

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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 (cast, arm, muscle), 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:4
# text = When the cast comes off, the arm looks thin, hairy and smelly, but muscle and skin come back with normal use and a bit of physio.
# 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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	smelly	smelly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	physio	physio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **come off** | present | the cast |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | the arm |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come back** | present | muscle and skin |  |  |  |  | with normal use and a bit of physio | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`.

**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/).

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