--- title: A scab is a dried blood clot protecting the new skin; picking it reo… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics description: A scab is a dried blood clot protecting the new skin; picking it reopens the wound and can leave a bigger scar; an itchy scab is a normal part of healing. Who acts: scab, dried blood clot, picking, itchy scab. 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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 (scab, dried blood clot, picking, itchy scab), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:15 # text = A scab is a dried blood clot protecting the new skin; picking it reopens the wound and can leave a bigger scar; an itchy scab is a normal part of healing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scab scab NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 clot clot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 protecting protect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 reopens reopen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 scar scar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 scab scab NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . 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 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | a scab | a dried blood clot | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **protect** | gerund | a dried blood clot *not said here* | the new skin | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary | | 4 | **pick** | gerund | | skin | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **reopen** | present | picking | the wound | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | | 6 | **leave** | can | picking *not said here* | a bigger scar | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | a itchy scab | a normal part | | | | of healing | tree rules | 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. 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