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title: Skin under a cast itches because it is sweaty and dead skin cells ca… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics
description: Skin under a cast itches because it is sweaty and dead skin cells cannot flake off. Who acts: Skin, skin cells. 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.
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# The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 6

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Skin under a cast itches because it is sweaty and dead skin cells cannot flake off.

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**Who acts:** Skin, skin cells · **What happens:** itch, be, not flake off

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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 (Skin, skin cells), 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:6
# text = Skin under a cast itches because it is sweaty and dead skin cells cannot flake off.
# 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): no change
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	itches	itch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	flake	flake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **itch** | present | Skin under a cast |  |  |  |  |  | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | skin |  |  |  |  | sweaty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **flake off** | can | skin cells |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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