The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 14

You lose many thousands of skin cells every minute, and much of house dust is dead skin.

Who acts: You, much · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: many thousands, dead skin

This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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, much), 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	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thousands	amod
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cells	case
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cells	compound
7	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 minute	det
9	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 skin	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 skin	cc
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 skin	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 dust	case
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dust	compound
15	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 much	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 skin	cop
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 skin	amod
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lose	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	You	many thousands of skin cells			minute		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Eventuality
2	is a	present	much of house dust	dead skin					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:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.lesson:14.

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): R6-punct-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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