The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 16
Fingerprints are ridges that help us grip, every person's are different, even identical twins', and koalas have fingerprints very like ours.
Who acts: Fingerprints, ridges, us, person, koalas · What happens: be, help, grip, have · To what, where: ridges, us, fingerprints
This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin» 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 (Fingerprints, ridges, us, person), 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 | Fingerprints | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ridges | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ridges | cop |
| 3 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 help | nsubj |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ridges | acl:relcl |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | grip | grip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 different | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 different | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 person | case |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 different | cop |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ridges | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 twins | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 twins | advmod |
| 16 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 twins | amod |
| 17 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 different | obl |
| 18 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 17 twins | case |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | koalas | koala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 different | conj |
| 22 | fingerprints | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 ours | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 ours | case |
| 25 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 have | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ridges | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fingerprints | ridges | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | ridges | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grip | infinitive | us not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | every person | ', identical twins; different property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | koalas | fingerprints | like ours | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingerprint=Patient |
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:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:16.
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, 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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