Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, sentence 9

Touching a toad does not give you warts, which are caused by a human virus, but toads have a bitter poison behind their eyes, so wash your hands.

Who acts: Touching, human virus, toads · What happens: touch, not give, cause, have, wash · To what, where: toad, warts, you, bitter poison, eyes, hands

This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders» 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 (Touching, human virus, 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	Touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 give	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 toad	det
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Touching	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caused	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 caused	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 caused	aux:pass
12	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 warts	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 virus	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 virus	det
15	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 virus	amod
16	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caused	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
19	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 poison	det
22	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 poison	amod
23	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 eyes	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eyes	nmod:poss
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 poison	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wash	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 wash	advmod
29	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	parataxis
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wash	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	touch	gerund		a toad			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toad=Co-Theme
2	not give	present · do-support	Touching	warts	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wart=Theme
3	cause	present · passive	a human virus	warts			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
4	have	present	toads	a bitter poison		toads's eyes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient
5	wash	infinitive		your hands			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:9.

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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