Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 1

Brush your leg against a nettle and you feel it at once: its hairs are tiny glass-like needles that snap off and push an itchy, burning mix into your skin.

Who acts: you, hairs, tiny like needles · What happens: brush, feel, be, snap off, push, burn · To what, where: leg, nettle, tiny like needles, itchy burning mix, skin

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» 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, hairs, tiny like needles), 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	Brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 leg	nmod:poss
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brush	obj
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 nettle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nettle	det
6	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brush	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feel	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 feel	nsubj
9	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Brush	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feel	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 feel	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 needles	punct
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hairs	nmod:poss
15	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 needles	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 needles	cop
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 needles	amod
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 like	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 glass	punct
20	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 needles	amod
21	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 feel	parataxis
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 snap	nsubj
23	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 needles	acl:relcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 snap	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 push	cc
26	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 snap	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 mix	det
28	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mix	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 burning	punct
30	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 mix	amod
31	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 push	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 skin	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 skin	nmod:poss
34	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 push	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Brush	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here	your leg	a nettle	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme against nettle=Destination
2	feel	present	you	leg		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Location
3	is a	present	leg's hairs	tiny like needles		tree rules
4	snap off	present	tiny like needles			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	push	present	tiny like needles not said here	a itchy burning mix	your skin	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mix=Theme into skin=Destination
6	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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