Kindness to wild animals, sentence 6

Frogs breathe partly through their thin, moist skin, which can be hurt by soap, sun cream and dry hands; it is best not to pick them up.

Who acts: Frogs, soap, frog · What happens: breathe, hurt, not be · To what, where: thin moist skin

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology 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 (Frogs, soap, frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breathe	nsubj
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	partly	partly	ADV	_	2 breathe	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	9 skin	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skin	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thin	punct
8	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skin	amod
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathe	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hurt	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hurt	nsubj:pass
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hurt	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 hurt	aux:pass
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 skin	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 soap	case
16	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hurt	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cream	punct
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cream	compound
19	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 soap	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hands	cc
21	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hands	amod
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cream	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 pick	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pick	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 pick	cop
26	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 pick	advmod
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 pick	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pick	mark
29	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 breathe	parataxis
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pick	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 pick	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 breathe	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	Frogs		birds's thin moist skin	partly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	can · passive	soap and sun cream and dry hands	birds's thin moist skin			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
3	not is	present	frog			pick, well property	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, 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:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:6.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

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