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title: Pushing anything inside a cast can scratch the skin, cause a hidden… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics
description: Pushing anything inside a cast can scratch the skin, cause a hidden infection, or get stuck. Who acts: Pushing. 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 7

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Pushing anything inside a cast can scratch the skin, cause a hidden infection, or get stuck.

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**Who acts:** Pushing · **What happens:** push, scratch, cause, get · **To what, where:** anything, cast, skin, hidden infection

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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 (Pushing), 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:7
# text = Pushing anything inside a cast can scratch the skin, cause a hidden infection, or get stuck.
# 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	Pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **push** | gerund |  | anything |  | a cast |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent anything=Theme inside cast=Trajectory |
| 2 | **scratch** | can | Pushing | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | Pushing *not said here* | a hidden infection |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | Pushing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:7`.

**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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