--- title: A cast is a hard shell of plaster or fibreglass that stops a broken… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics description: A cast is a hard shell of plaster or fibreglass that stops a broken bone moving while it heals. Who acts: cast, hard shell. 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 clause. --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 5 A cast is a hard shell of plaster or fibreglass that stops a broken bone moving while it heals. **Who acts:** cast, hard shell · **What happens:** be, stop, break, move, heal · **To what, where:** hard shell, broken bone 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, hard shell), 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:5 # text = A cast is a hard shell of plaster or fibreglass that stops a broken bone moving while it heals. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 fibreglass fibreglass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 heals heal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a cast | a hard shell | | | | of plaster or fibreglass | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | present | a hard shell | a broken bone | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **move** | gerund | a hard shell *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **heal** | present | cast | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:5`. **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, R8-pos-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/4/) - next →: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/)