Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics, sentence 12
You do not get warts from touching a toad, because warts come from a human virus, but toads have bumpy glands with bad-tasting stuff, so wash your hands after holding one.
Who acts: You, warts, toads · What happens: not get, touch, come, have, wash, hold · To what, where: warts, toad, human virus, bumpy glands, hands, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» 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 (You, warts, toads), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | warts | wart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 touching | mark |
| 7 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 get | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 toad | det |
| 9 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touching | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 12 | warts | wart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | nsubj |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 virus | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 virus | det |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 virus | amod |
| 17 | virus | virus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | conj |
| 22 | bumpy | bumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 glands | amod |
| 23 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 stuff | case |
| 25 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tasting | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 bad | punct |
| 27 | tasting | tasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stuff | compound |
| 28 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glands | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wash | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 wash | advmod |
| 31 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | parataxis |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hands | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 wash | obj |
| 34 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 35 holding | mark |
| 35 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 wash | advcl |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 holding | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present · do-support | You | warts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wart=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | You not said here | a toad | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toad=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | present | warts | a human virus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | toads | bumpy glands | with tasting stuff | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient | |||
| 5 | wash | infinitive | your hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||||
| 6 | hold | gerund | one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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, 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:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.lesson:12.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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