Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 2

Look at a sunbeam in your bedroom: those floating specks of dust are partly your own dead skin, because the outer layer is always flaking off and being replaced from below.

Who acts: you, floating specks, outer layer · What happens: look, float, be, flake off, replace · To what, where: own dead skin

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 (you, floating specks, outer layer), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 sunbeam	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sunbeam	det
4	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bedroom	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bedroom	nmod:poss
7	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sunbeam	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 specks	punct
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 specks	det
10	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 specks	amod
11	specks	speck	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 skin	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 dust	case
13	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 specks	nmod
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 skin	cop
15	partly	partly	ADV	_	19 skin	advmod
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 skin	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 skin	amod
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 skin	amod
19	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flaking	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 flaking	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 layer	det
23	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 layer	amod
24	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flaking	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 flaking	aux
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 flaking	advmod
27	flaking	flake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 skin	advcl
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 flaking	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 replaced	cc
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 replaced	aux:pass
31	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 flaking	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 below	case
33	below	below	ADV	_	31 replaced	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		at a sunbeam in your bedroom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sunbeam=Theme
2	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	that floating specks of dust	your own dead skin	partly property	tree rules
4	flake off	present · progressive	the outer layer		always property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	replace	gerund · passive	the outer layer not said here			vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»

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:2.

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. 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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