--- title: A blister protects damaged skin while new skin grows, so it is best… — Burns, sunburn and stings · tree and pragmatics description: A blister protects damaged skin while new skin grows, so it is best left alone; popping it can let in germs. Who acts: blister, new skin. A sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Burns, sunburn and stings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/) / 7 # Burns, sunburn and stings, sentence 7 A blister protects damaged skin while new skin grows, so it is best left alone; popping it can let in germs. **Who acts:** blister, new skin · **What happens:** protect, damage, grow, leave, pop, let · **To what, where:** damaged skin, skin, germs This is a sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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 (blister, new skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.lesson:7 # text = A blister protects damaged skin while new skin grows, so it is best left alone; popping it can let in germs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 blister blister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 14 best good ADV RBS Degree=Sup 15 advmod _ _ 15 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 16 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 popping pop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | present | a blister | damaged skin | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary | | 2 | **damage** | participle | | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | present | new skin | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | present · passive | | skin | | | | alone, good *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **pop** | gerund | a blister *not said here* | skin | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **let** | can | a blister *not said here* | | | germs | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | 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:006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. **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: [Burns, sunburn and stings, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/6/) - next →: [Burns, sunburn and stings, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/)