--- title: A plaster cast that gets soaked goes soft and weak, and the damp pad… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics description: A plaster cast that gets soaked goes soft and weak, and the damp padding can make the skin sore, so the fracture clinic should be phoned. Who acts: plaster cast, damp padding. 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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 (plaster cast, damp padding), 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:9 # text = A plaster cast that gets soaked goes soft and weak, and the damp padding can make the skin sore, so the fracture clinic should be phoned. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 soaked soak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 padding padding NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 fracture fracture NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 clinic clinic NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 phoned phone VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soak** | present · passive | | a plaster cast | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 2 | **go** | present | a plaster cast | | | | | soft *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **make** | can | the damp padding | the skin | | | | sore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skin=Product | | 4 | **phone** | should · passive | | the fracture clinic | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/8/) - next →: [The cast: itching, signing and the saw, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/)