--- title: The scab is the body's own plaster, so leave it alone; red, hot, puf… — Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters · tree and pragmatics description: The scab is the body's own plaster, so leave it alone; red, hot, puffy skin with pus means germs got in and someone should look at it. Who acts: scab, red hot puffy skin, germs, someone. 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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, red hot puffy skin, germs, someone), 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:4 # text = The scab is the body's own plaster, so leave it alone; red, hot, puffy skin with pus means germs got in and someone should look at it. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scab scab NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 puffy puffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 pus pus NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 24 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 in in ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 nsubj _ _ 29 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | the scab | the body's own plaster | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | infinitive | | scab | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | red hot puffy skin with pus | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get in** | past | germs | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **look** | should | someone | | | | | at skin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | 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:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:4`. **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: [Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/3/) - next →: [Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/)