The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 17
Fingers and toes wrinkle in the bath because nerves make them do it, perhaps for better grip in the wet, like tyre treads; a finger whose nerve is cut does not wrinkle.
Who acts: Fingers, nerves, finger · What happens: wrinkle, make, do, cut, not wrinkle · To what, where: bath, Fingers, nerve
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 (Fingers, nerves, finger), 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 | Fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrinkle | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 toes | cc |
| 3 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fingers | conj |
| 4 | wrinkle | wrinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bath | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bath | det |
| 7 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrinkle | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 9 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | nsubj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrinkle | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grip | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 grip | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 grip | case |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 grip | amod |
| 18 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wet | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wet | det |
| 21 | wet | wet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grip | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 treads | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 treads | case |
| 24 | tyre | tyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 treads | compound |
| 25 | treads | tread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grip | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrinkle | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 finger | det |
| 28 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wrinkle | nsubj |
| 29 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 30 nerve | nmod:poss |
| 30 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cut | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 cut | aux:pass |
| 32 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 finger | acl:relcl |
| 33 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 wrinkle | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 wrinkle | advmod |
| 35 | wrinkle | wrinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wrinkle | parataxis |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrinkle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | present | Fingers and toes | the bath | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | nerves | Fingers = finger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | Fingers = finger not said here | nerve | for better grip in the wet like tyre treads | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | cut | present · passive | nerve | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 5 | not wrinkle | present · do-support | a finger | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:17.
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): R5-strong ×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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