Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 15

Ultraviolet light from the sun damages skin cells and causes sunburn; you can burn on a cloudy day, snow and water reflect sunlight onto you, and sunburn in childhood raises the risk of skin cancer later.

Who acts: Ultraviolet light, you, snow, sunburn · What happens: cause, sunburn, burn, reflect, raise, risk · To what, where: sunlight, risk, skin cancer

This is a sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» 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 (Ultraviolet light, you, snow, sunburn), 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	Ultraviolet	ultraviolet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	compound
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sunburn	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 damages	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	nmod
6	damages	damage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 light	nmod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 damages	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 causes	cc
10	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 damages	conj
11	sunburn	sunburn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 burn	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 burn	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 burn	aux
15	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sunburn	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 day	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burn	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reflect	punct
21	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reflect	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 water	cc
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 snow	conj
24	reflect	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 burn	conj
25	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reflect	obj
26	onto	onto	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 reflect	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 raises	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 raises	cc
30	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 raises	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 childhood	case
32	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sunburn	nmod
33	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sunburn	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 risk	det
35	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 raises	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 cancer	case
37	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cancer	compound
38	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 risk	nmod
39	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 raises	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sunburn	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Ultraviolet light the sun from damages not said here				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	sunburn	infinitive	Ultraviolet light the sun from damages				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	burn	can	you		day		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	reflect	infinitive	snow and water	sunlight		onto you	tree rules
5	raise	present	sunburn in childhood	the risk of skin cancer		late property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme
6	risk			skin cancer			nom risk «state transitive»: of=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:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn.lesson:15.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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